From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Ameen Rahman <ameen.rahman@qlogic.com>,
Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com>,
Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:03:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302696197.5282.612.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <99737F4847ED0A48AECC9F4A1974A4B80FD1384031@MNEXMB2.qlogic.org>
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 04:45 -0500, Amit Salecha wrote:
> > Ethtool support to configure RX, TX and other channels. combined field
> > in struct ethtool_channels to reflect set of channel (RX, TX or other).
> > Other channel can be link interrupts, SR-IOV coordination etc.
> >
> > ETHTOOL_GCHANNELS will report max and current number of RX channels,
> > max and current number of TX channels, max and current number of other
> > channel
> > or max and current number of combined channel.
> >
> > Number of channel can be modify upto max number of channel through
> > ETHTOOL_SCHANNELS command.
> >
> > Ben Hutchings:
> > o define 'combined' and 'other' types. Most multiqueue drivers pair up
> > RX and TX
> > queues so that most channels combine RX and TX work.
> > o Please could you use a kernel-doc comment to describe the structure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>
>
> Neither I see this patch in http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ nor any comment.
> Just curious, is this patch discarded along with my other garbage patches ?
It's marked as 'deferred'; not sure what that means:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/90166/
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-13 12:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-07 11:58 [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels Amit Kumar Salecha
2011-04-13 9:45 ` Amit Salecha
2011-04-13 12:03 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2011-04-13 17:40 ` David Miller
2011-04-13 18:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-13 18:31 ` David Miller
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