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

From: Leon Romanovsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 20:33:24 +0200

On Tue, Nov 08, 2022 at 04:24:48PM -0600, rama nichanamatlu wrote:
> in-line.

<...>

> > The thing is that "vendor" failed to explain internally if this debug
> > code is useful. Like I said, extremely rare debug code shouldn't be part
> > of main data path.
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> thank you very much for you insights into the relevance of the patch. before
> we close this topic, do want to ask on this.  what is the expectation of the
> nic hardware when it signatures / checksum's an eqe or cqe ?
> 
> if it not to be verified by the receiver host for what ever reasons, then
> why even do the checksum computation on the hardware ? 

mlx5 data sheet has more than 3000 pages in it. Not everything there is needed now.

Thanks