Re: [PATCH net-next] ice: fix broken Rx on VFs

[Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>]

From: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:07:35 +0100

Ooops, missed a tag, sorry...

> Since the tagged commit, ice stopped respecting Rx buffer length
> passed from VFs.
> At that point, the buffer length was hardcoded in ice, so VFs still
> worked up to some point (until, for example, a VF wanted an MTU
> larger than its PF).
> The next commit 93f53db9f9dc ("ice: switch to Page Pool"), broke
> Rx on VFs completely since ice started accounting per-queue buffer
> lengths again, but now VF queues always had their length zeroed, as
> ice was already ignoring what iavf was passing to it.
> 
> Restore the line that initializes the buffer length on VF queues
> basing on the virtchnl messages.
> 
> Fixes: 3a4f419f7509 ("ice: drop page splitting and recycling")
> Reported-by: Jakub Slepecki <jakub.slepecki@intel.com>

Suggested-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@linux.intel.com>

> Reviewed-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <aleksander.lobakin@intel.com>
> ---
> I'd like this to go directly to net-next to quickly unbreak VFs
> (the related commits are not in the mainline yet).
Thanks,
Olek