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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: amit.salecha@qlogic.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@qlogic.com, sucheta.chakraborty@qlogic.com,
	anirban.chakraborty@qlogic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:31:24 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110413.113124.59674252.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302718921.2873.1.camel@bwh-desktop>

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:22:01 +0100

> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 04:58 -0700, Amit Kumar 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>
> Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.

      reply	other threads:[~2011-04-13 18:32 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
2011-04-13 17:40     ` David Miller
2011-04-13 18:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-13 18:31   ` David Miller [this message]

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