From: "Keller, Jacob E" <jacob.e.keller@intel•com>
To: "moorray3@wp•pl" <moorray3@wp•pl>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] ethtool: can't set combined and tx/rx channel counts at the same time
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 22:00:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1454968816.25441.20.camel@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160208205247.74aaaee8@jkicinski-Precision-T1700>
On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 20:52 +0000, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Feb 2016 12:06:04 -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > + /* can't set combined and separate channels at the same
> > time */
> > + if ((channels.combined_count &&
> > + (channels.rx_count || channels.tx_count))
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > /* ensure the new Rx count fits within the configured Rx
> > flow
> > * indirection table settings */
> > if (netif_is_rxfh_configured(dev) &&
>
> My understanding is that unsymmetrical rx/tx queue configuration with
> combined IRQ vectors should be expressed as:
>
> combined = min(tx, rx);
> num_tx = tx - combined;
> num_rx = rx - combined;
>
> Please see:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg93977.html
>
> Patches which I cooked up for this are rotting in my queue blocked by
> other things, unfortunately.
That's definitely not how any driver currently uses it today, that I
can see... At least drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ethtool.c
is currently assuming you can't set combined and asymmetric queues at
the same time.
I can ok dropping this change, and looking at implementing what you
suggest, as that makes more sense to me.
Regards,
Jake
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-08 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-08 20:06 [PATCH 0/3] ethtool: correct {GS}CHANNELS and {GS}RXFH conflict Jacob Keller
2016-02-08 20:06 ` [PATCH 1/4] ethtool: correctly ensure {GS}CHANNELS doesn't conflict with GS{RXFH} Jacob Keller
2016-02-08 20:24 ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-08 20:31 ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-08 20:47 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-02-08 20:06 ` [PATCH 2/4] ethtool: ensure channel counts are within bounds during SCHANNELS Jacob Keller
2016-02-08 20:29 ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-08 20:06 ` [PATCH 3/4] ethtool: can't set combined and tx/rx channel counts at the same time Jacob Keller
2016-02-08 20:25 ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-08 20:30 ` kbuild test robot
2016-02-08 20:52 ` Jakub Kicinski
2016-02-08 22:00 ` Keller, Jacob E [this message]
2016-02-08 22:15 ` Keller, Jacob E
2016-02-08 20:06 ` [PATCH 4/4] fm10k: don't reinitialize RSS flow table when RXFH configured Jacob Keller
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