Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net: Introduce realloc_netdev_mq()

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 23:47:42 +0100

On Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 10:51:25PM +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> David Miller a écrit :
> > From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:29:42 +0100
> > 
> >> Nice patch, thanks :)
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > I like it too, but please resubmit once we have at least
> > one example user submitted.
> > 
> 
> I successfully tested following patch.

Great! But, I see, checking if realloc_netdev_mq() use is always legal
(before register_netdev()) is not trivial in this driver. (I have some
suspicions around ixgbe_resume().) I wonder, if there should be added
some debugging for this.

Thanks,
Jarek P.

> 
> Thanks !
> 
> [PATCH] ixgbe: Use realloc_netdev_mq() helper
> 
> Instead of 128 tx queues, we can cap the tx queue number to what driver really uses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> index 9ba506f..e524d0d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
> @@ -3306,7 +3306,7 @@ static void ixgbe_set_num_queues(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
>  
>  done:
>  	/* Notify the stack of the (possibly) reduced Tx Queue count. */
> -	adapter->netdev->real_num_tx_queues = adapter->num_tx_queues;
> +	realloc_netdev_mq(adapter->netdev, adapter->num_tx_queues);
>  }
>  
>  static void ixgbe_acquire_msix_vectors(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter,
>