On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 03:20:46PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:

RSS (Receive Side Scaling) technology allows to spread incoming traffic
between different receive descriptor queues.
Assigning each queue to different CPU cores allows to better load
balance the incoming traffic and improve performance.

This patch-set introduces some new objects and verbs in order to allow
verbs based solutions to utilize the RSS offload capability which is
widely supported today by many modern NICs. It extends the IB and uverbs
layers to support the above functionality and supplies a specific
implementation for the mlx5_ib driver.

Any plans for mlx4_ib driver?

The implementation is based on an RFC that was sent to the list some
months ago and describes the expected verbs and objects.
RFC: http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg25012.html

In addition, below URL can be used as a reference to the motivation and
the justification to add the new objects that are described below.
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt
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