Re: [PATCH net-next 05/11] ethtool: rss: support setting hfunc via Netlink

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:10:20 +0300 Gal Pressman wrote:
> > @@ -617,7 +623,11 @@ ethnl_rss_set(struct ethnl_req_info *req_info, struct genl_info *info)
> >  		goto exit_clean_data;
> >  	mod |= indir_mod;
> >  
> > -	rxfh.hfunc = ETH_RSS_HASH_NO_CHANGE;
> > +	rxfh.hfunc = data.hfunc;  
> 
> What is this for?

WDYM? data is filled in by the GET handler. So we init rxfh.hfunc
to what driver returned from GET.

> > +	ethnl_update_u8(&rxfh.hfunc, tb[ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HFUNC], &mod);
> > +	if (rxfh.hfunc == data.hfunc)
> > +		rxfh.hfunc = ETH_RSS_HASH_NO_CHANGE;  
> 
> I think that this is a distinction that we don't currently make in the
> drivers/ioctl flow.
> 
> NO_CHANGE was specifically used for cases where the user didn't specify
> a parameter, not for cases where the request is equal to the configured one.
> mlx5 for example, performs this check internally because it can't rely
> on NO_CHANGE for requested == configured.

Yeah, no strong preference. We have to live with the ioctl path so 
the drivers will need to keep handling all corner cases. In this case 
I chose behaving somewhat consistently with the ioctl behavior (assuming
user space is well behaved). Otherwise if we move ethtool CLI to netlink
new drivers may forget that NO_CHANGE is a thing.