vdpa/mlx5: set default event mode to polling

For better performance and latency, this patch sets default event
handling mode to polling mode which uses dedicate thread per device to
poll and process event.

Signed-off-by: Xueming Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Acked-by: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
index 2025425..730e171 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Driver options
   - 2, Completion queue scheduling will be managed by interrupts. Each CQ burst
     arms the CQ in order to get an interrupt event in the next traffic burst.
 
-  - Default mode is 0.
+  - Default mode is 1.
 
 - ``event_us`` parameter [int]
 

diff --git a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
index 1f92c52..5d954d4 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
+++ b/drivers/vdpa/mlx5/mlx5_vdpa.c
@@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ mlx5_vdpa_config_get(struct rte_devargs *devargs, struct mlx5_vdpa_priv *priv)
 {
        struct rte_kvargs *kvlist;
 
-       priv->event_mode = MLX5_VDPA_EVENT_MODE_DYNAMIC_TIMER;
+       priv->event_mode = MLX5_VDPA_EVENT_MODE_FIXED_TIMER;
        priv->event_us = 0;
        priv->event_core = -1;
        priv->no_traffic_time_s = MLX5_VDPA_DEFAULT_NO_TRAFFIC_TIME_S;