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

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:36:53 +0100

On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 02:50:48PM -0800, Michael Chan wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 05:49 -0800, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 01:01:34PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > > Eric, if didn't miss something in the example you gave at the
> > > beginning of this thread, it seems a change like below (not compiled)
> > > should fix your problem (without even testing MSI exactly)?
> > 
> 
> Bringing back an older thread.  Are we still planning to use
> realloc_netdev_mq()?

I hope so, except it seems we lost Eric's interest in (t)his idea,
and got Peter's kind opinion.

> The problem with the patch below is that
> dev->real_num_tx_queues can still be reduced during bnx2_open().
> 

I'm not sure I get your point, but there should be no problem with
changing dev->real_num_tx_queues during ->open(). The main intention
of realloc_netdev_mq() is to give drivers some official way to change
dev->num_tx_queues until register_netdev() with the main aim: not to
treat obviously non-mq chips as mq according to netif_is_multiqueue().
Additional gain is memory saved in the case fixed by the patch below
(which btw. waits for some refinement/verification).

> Is it possible to call realloc_netdev_mq() during ->open()?

No, and no such intention, since there was kind of agreement it's not
necessary and collides with preserving qdisc state (stats). But the
discussion isn't closed...

Thanks,
Jarek P.

> 
> > OOPS! Take 2...;-)
> >  
> > Jarek P.
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/net/bnx2.c |    5 +++++
> >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2.c b/drivers/net/bnx2.c
> > index 4bfc808..c1ba2b1 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/bnx2.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2.c
> > @@ -8288,6 +8288,11 @@ bnx2_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
> >  		dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO6;
> >  		vlan_features_add(dev, NETIF_F_TSO6);
> >  	}
> > +
> > +	if (!((bp->flags & BNX2_FLAG_MSIX_CAP) ||
> > +	     (bp->flags & BNX2_FLAG_MSI_CAP)) || disable_msi)
> > +		realloc_netdev_mq(dev, 1);
> > +
> >  	if ((rc = register_netdev(dev))) {
> >  		dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot register net device\n");
> >  		goto error;
> > 
> 
>