From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:03:17 +0100 Message-ID: <1302696197.5282.612.camel@localhost> References: <1302177522-17815-1-git-send-email-amit.salecha@qlogic.com> <99737F4847ED0A48AECC9F4A1974A4B80FD1384031@MNEXMB2.qlogic.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Ameen Rahman , Sucheta Chakraborty , Anirban Chakraborty To: Amit Salecha Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:55205 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754721Ab1DMMDV (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:03:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <99737F4847ED0A48AECC9F4A1974A4B80FD1384031@MNEXMB2.qlogic.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > 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. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.