Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH 1/1] IB/mlx5: Add a signature check to received EQEs and CQEs

From: Leon Romanovsky
Date: Thu Oct 27 2022 - 08:23:30 EST


On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:44:12AM -0700, Rohit Nair wrote:
> Hey Leon,
>
> Please find my replies to your comments here below:

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> >
> > > This patch does not introduce any significant performance degradations
> > > and has been tested using qperf.
> > What does it mean? You made changes in kernel verbs flow, they are not
> > executed through qperf.
> We also conducted several extensive performance tests using our test-suite
> which utilizes rds-stress and also saw no significant performance
> degrdations in those results.

What does it mean "also"? Your change is applicable ONLY for kernel path.

Anyway, I'm not keen adding rare debug code to performance critical path.

Thanks