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MLX5 IB HCA offers the memory key, dump_fill_mkey to boost performance, when used in a send or receive operations. It is used to force local HCA operations to skip the PCI bus access, while keeping track of the processed length in the ibv_sge handling. Meaning, instead of a PCI write access the HCA leaves the target memory untouched, and skips filling that packet section. Similar behavior is done upon send, the HCA skips data in memory relevant to this key and saves PCI bus access. This functionality saves PCI read/write operations. Signed-off-by: Yonatan Cohen <yonatanc@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Guy Levi <guyle@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.