Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] net/mlx5e: Speedup channel configuration operations

[Tariq Toukan]

On 12/11/2025 12:54, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote:
> Tariq Toukan <tariqt@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > This series significantly improves the latency of channel configuration
> > operations, like interface up (create channels), interface down (destroy
> > channels), and channels reconfiguration (create new set, destroy old
> > one).
>
> On the topic of improving ifup/ifdown times, I noticed at some point
> that mlx5 will call synchronize_net() once for every queue when they are
> deactivated (in mlx5e_deactivate_txqsq()). Have you considered changing
> that to amortise the sync latency over the full interface bringdown? :)
>
> -Toke

Correct!
This can be improved and I actually have WIP patches for this, as I'm 
revisiting this code area recently.