[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next v1 1/9] ethtool: Add support for configuring frame preemption

[Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>]

Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:

> On Mon, 07 Dec 2020 14:11:48 -0800 Vinicius Costa Gomes wrote:
>> Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> writes:
>> >> + * @min_frag_size_mult: Minimum size for all non-final fragment size,
>> >> + * expressed in terms of X in '(1 + X)*64 + 4'  
>> >
>> > Is this way of expressing the min frag size from the standard?
>> >  
>> 
>> The standard has this: "A 2-bit integer value indicating, in units of 64
>> octets, the minimum number of octets over 64 octets required in
>> non-final fragments by the receiver" from IEEE 802.3br-2016, Table
>> 79-7a.
>
> Thanks! Let's drop the _mult suffix and add a mention of this
> controlling the addFragSize variable from the standard. Perhaps 
> it should in fact be called add_frag_size (with an explanation 
> that the "additional" means "above the 64B" which are required in
> Ethernet, and which are accounted for by the "1" in the 1 + X
> formula)?

Sounds good :-) Will add a comment with the standard reference and
change the name to 'add_frag_size'.


Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius