On Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:28:41 +0100 Dariusz Sosnowski <[email protected]> wrote:
> This series is a result of splitting patch: > https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/[email protected]/ > > Patch 1 - Fix for mlx5 link update function to query current link carrier > status, > bypassing the delay introduced by linkwatch in Linux kernel. > > Patch 2 - Move to link status polling, in place of relying on netlink events > which can be delayed by linkwatch for up to 1s. Instead of polling is there a way to get the lsc directly from devx or ibv on mlx5? That would work around the issue and avoid the overhead. Long term, it would be good if kernel had sysctl to set linkwatch per interface but it doesn't
