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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ixgbe: fix multi-process support
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 01:02:13 +0100
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2014-12-11 17:07, Bruce Richardson:
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 04:58:42PM +0000, Pattan, Reshma wrote:
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces-VfR2kkLFssw@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Richardson
> > > When using multiple processes, the TX function used in all processes should be
> > > the same, otherwise the secondary processes cannot transmit more than tx-
> > > ring-size - 1 packets.
> > > To achieve this, we extract out the code to select the ixgbe TX function to be
> > > used into a separate function inside the ixgbe driver, and call that from a
> > > secondary process when it is attaching to an already-configured NIC.
> > > 
> > > Testing with symmetric MP app shows that we are able to RX and TX from both
> > > primary and secondary processes once this patch is applied.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > > 
> > > ----
> > > V2 Changes:
> > > * Moved check for primary/secondary process into set_tx_function instead
> > >   of ixgbe_txq_vec_setup, which reduces scope of diff.
> > > * Added/cleaned up some code comments for this change
> > > ---
> > Acked-by: Reshma Pattan<reshma.pattan-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
> > With comment " checkpatch shows whitespace errors which got copied from old code"
> 
> Thomas, can you fix the whitespace problems when you apply, or do you want a V3?

Applied with whitespace changes.

Thanks
-- 
Thomas