From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 7/8] sfc: Set net_device::num_rx_queues once we know the correct value
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:38:34 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100921.183834.70182767.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285106878.2697.96.camel@localhost>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 02:31:36 +0100
> Right, but we do need to have some way for drivers to specify the actual
> number of RX queues.
Ok, the problem stems merely from the fact that we only specify one
"queue count" in alloc_netdev_mq(). We should specify two, one for
TX and one for RX.
So why not fix that instead of putting hacks into the drivers? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-22 1:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-20 18:40 [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/8] sfc and ethtool changes for 2.6.37 Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:41 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/8] ethtool: Define RX n-tuple action to clear a rule Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:42 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/8] ethtool: Add Ethernet MAC-level filtering/steering Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:42 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 3/8] ethtool: Allocate register dump buffer with vmalloc() Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 4/8] sfc: Add filter table management Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 5/8] sfc: Implement the ethtool RX n-tuple control functions Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 6/8] sfc: Include RX IP filter table in register dump Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:43 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 7/8] sfc: Set net_device::num_rx_queues once we know the correct value Ben Hutchings
2010-09-20 18:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20 19:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-21 21:57 ` David Miller
2010-09-22 1:31 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-22 1:38 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-22 15:28 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-09-22 15:44 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-09-20 18:44 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 8/8] sfc: Clean up and correct comments on efx_monitor() Ben Hutchings
2010-09-21 21:58 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/8] sfc and ethtool changes for 2.6.37 David Miller
2010-09-21 23:23 ` David Miller
2010-09-22 15:27 ` Ben Hutchings
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