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This series includes shared code updates for mlx5 core driver for both
 netdev and rdma subsystems.
 
 By Saeed,
 First six patches of the series are meant to address a performance issue
 and should provide a performance boost for multi core IRQ interrupt hungry
 workloads.  The issue is fixed in the first patch, all other patches are
 meant to refactor the code in light of this fix.
 
 The problem it comes to fix, is a shared spinlock accessed across all HCA
 IRQs which protects the CQ database.  To solve this we simply move the CQ
 database and its spinlock to be per EQ (IRQ), thus per core.
 
 By Yonatan,
 Fragmented completion queue (CQ) for RDMA,
 core driver implementation to create fragmented CQ buffers rather than
 one large contiguous memory buffer, the implementation scheme already
 exist and used by the netdev CQs, the patch shares that code with the
 rdma CQ creation flow and makes use of the new API in mlx5_ib driver.
 
 Thanks,
 Saeed.
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Merge tag 'mlx5-updates-2018-02-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mellanox/linux into k.o/wip/dl-for-next

mlx5-updates-2018-02-21

This series includes shared code updates for mlx5 core driver for both
netdev and rdma subsystems.

By Saeed,
First six patches of the series are meant to address a performance issue
and should provide a performance boost for multi core IRQ interrupt hungry
workloads.  The issue is fixed in the first patch, all other patches are
meant to refactor the code in light of this fix.

The problem it comes to fix, is a shared spinlock accessed across all HCA
IRQs which protects the CQ database.  To solve this we simply move the CQ
database and its spinlock to be per EQ (IRQ), thus per core.

By Yonatan,
Fragmented completion queue (CQ) for RDMA,
core driver implementation to create fragmented CQ buffers rather than
one large contiguous memory buffer, the implementation scheme already
exist and used by the netdev CQs, the patch shares that code with the
rdma CQ creation flow and makes use of the new API in mlx5_ib driver.

Thanks,
Saeed.

Merged into rdma-next tree as well as net-next tree to prevent conflicts
in future patches between the two trees.

Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2018-02-22 20:52:28 -05:00
Documentation KVM changes for 4.16 2018-02-10 13:16:35 -08:00
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block vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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fs vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
include mlx5-updates-2018-02-21 2018-02-22 20:52:28 -05:00
init membarrier: Provide core serializing command, *_SYNC_CORE 2018-02-05 21:35:03 +01:00
ipc vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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samples sample/bpf: fix erspan metadata 2018-02-06 11:32:49 -05:00
scripts Kbuild updates for v4.16 (2nd) 2018-02-09 19:32:41 -08:00
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sound vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
tools Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2018-02-09 15:34:18 -08:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacement 2018-02-11 14:34:03 -08:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.