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authorRon Livne <ronli@voltaire.com>2008-07-14 23:48:48 -0700
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>2008-07-14 23:48:48 -0700
commit12406734051a26e9fe4c8568e931dfddbb72d431 (patch)
tree731bbb97c981389fd04684714214b18388ec8b41 /drivers/infiniband
parent521e575b9a7324a0bca762622139f69582a042bf (diff)
IPoIB: Use multicast loopback blocking if available
Set IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK for IPoIB's UD QPs if supported by the underlying device. This creates an improvement of up to 39% in bandwidth when sending multicast packets with IPoIB, and an improvment of 12% in cpu usage. Signed-off-by: Ron Livne <ronli@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/infiniband')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
index 810790ae753..7b8fa36f509 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
@@ -199,7 +199,10 @@ int ipoib_transport_dev_init(struct net_device *dev, struct ib_device *ca)
init_attr.recv_cq = priv->recv_cq;
if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_UD_TSO)
- init_attr.create_flags = IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO;
+ init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO;
+
+ if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK)
+ init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK;
if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)
init_attr.cap.max_send_sge = MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1;