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From: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio•com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>,
	"davem@davemloft•net" <davem@davemloft•net>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [ethtool PATCH 4/4] v5 Add RX packet classification interface
Date: Wed, 04 May 2011 12:06:12 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC1A3A4.20900@chelsio.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1304532342.2926.46.camel@bwh-desktop>

On 05/04/2011 11:05 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> How about having ETHTOOL_GRXCLSRLCNT set a flag in the 'data' field to
> indicate that the driver can assign locations?  (We would have to
> specify that for compatibility with older kernels the application must
> initialise this filed to 0.)
> 
> rmgr_init() would then check for this flag.

I think this is a good suggestion if we want to support location selection by 
either the driver or ethtool.  I also think ethtool's assumption that it is the 
only allocator and can allocate race-free is fundamentally flawed (take two 
parallel ethtools).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-04 19:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 16:12 [ethtool PATCH 0/4] Add support for network flow classifier Alexander Duyck
2011-05-03 16:12 ` [ethtool PATCH 1/4] ethtool: remove strings based approach for displaying n-tuple Alexander Duyck
2011-05-03 16:12 ` [ethtool PATCH 2/4] Cleanup defines and header includes to address several issues Alexander Duyck
2011-05-03 16:12 ` [ethtool PATCH 3/4] Add support for __be64 and bitops, centralize several needed macros Alexander Duyck
2011-05-03 16:12 ` [ethtool PATCH 4/4] v5 Add RX packet classification interface Alexander Duyck
2011-05-03 23:23   ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-05-03 23:34     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-04  0:29       ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04  1:35         ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-05-04  3:10           ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04 17:09       ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-05-04 17:24         ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-04 17:33           ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-05-04 17:41             ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04 18:05               ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-04 18:21                 ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04 18:45                   ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-04 21:07                     ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04 21:54                       ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-04 19:06                 ` Dimitris Michailidis [this message]
2011-05-04 18:18               ` Dimitris Michailidis
2011-05-04 18:35                 ` Alexander Duyck
2011-05-04 18:50                   ` Dimitris Michailidis

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