From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bkenward@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jcooper@solarflare.com,
linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sfc: disable RSS when unsupported
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:22:25 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160428.142225.2060200700551666300.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <571E3CE4.6010808@solarflare.com>
From: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:51:00 +0100
> From: Jon Cooper <jcooper@solarflare.com>
>
> When certain firmware variants are selected (via the sfboot utility) the
> SFC7000 and SFC8000 series NICs don't support RSS. The driver still
> tries (and fails) to insert filters with the RSS flag, and the NIC fails
> to pass traffic.
>
> When the firmware reports RSS_LIMITED suppress allocating a default RSS
> context. The absence of an RSS context is picked up in filter insertion
> and RSS flags are discarded.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bert Kenward <bkenward@solarflare.com>
Applied.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-28 18:22 UTC|newest]
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2016-04-25 15:51 [PATCH net] sfc: disable RSS when unsupported Bert Kenward
2016-04-28 18:22 ` David Miller [this message]
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