From: Felix Manlunas <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:25:18 -0700
> From: Intiyaz Basha <[email protected]> > > During heavy tx traffic, control messages (sent by liquidio driver to NIC > firmware) sometimes do not get processed in a timely manner. Reason is: > the low-level metadata of control messages and that of egress network > packets indicate that they have the same priority. > > Fix it by setting a higher priority for control messages through the new > ctrl_qpg field in the oct_txpciq struct. It is the NIC firmware that does > the actual setting of priority by writing to the new ctrl_qpg field; the > host driver treats that value as opaque and just assigns it to pki_ih3->qpg > > Signed-off-by: Intiyaz Basha <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Felix Manlunas <[email protected]> Applied.
