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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>
Cc: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@intel.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, intel-wired-lan@lists.osuosl.org,
	corbet@lwn.net, jesse.brandeburg@intel.com,
	anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, vladimir.oltean@nxp.com,
	andrew@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, mkubecek@suse.cz,
	willemdebruijn.kernel@gmail.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
	Wojciech Drewek <wojciech.drewek@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: ethtool: allow symmetric-xor RSS hash for any flow type
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:19:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231017131957.200bbb7e@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgT0UepNjfPp=TzXyY9Z7rYSGPZyUY64yjB2pqgWTP56=hCcA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 17 Oct 2023 13:03:39 -0700 Alexander Duyck wrote:
> > > My thought would be to possibly just look at reducing your messaging
> > > to a warning from the driver if the inputs are not symmetric, but you
> > > have your symmetric xor hash function enabled.  
> >
> > With the restrictions (to be moved into ice_ethtool), the user is unable
> > to use non-symmetric inputs.  
> 
> I think a warning would make more sense than an outright restriction.
> You could warn on both the enabling if the mask is already unbalanced,
> or you could warn if the mask is set to be unbalanced after enabling
> your hashing.

Either it's a valid configuration or we should error out in the core.
Keep in mind that we can always _loosen_ the restriction, like you
asked for VLAN ID, but we can never _tighten_ it without breaking uAPI.
So error.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-10-17 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-16 15:49 [PATCH net-next v4 0/6] Support symmetric RSS (Toeplitz) hash Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/6] net: ethtool: allow symmetric-xor RSS hash for any flow type Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 20:17   ` Alexander H Duyck
2023-10-16 21:08     ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 22:15       ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-16 22:44         ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 22:55           ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-16 23:30             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-17  0:08               ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-17 18:42                 ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-17 19:14                   ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-17 20:03                     ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-17 20:19                       ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-10-17 20:28                         ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-17 18:37               ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-17 20:17                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-17 20:41                   ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-17 22:12                     ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-18  0:34                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-18 18:12                       ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-18 23:50                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 21:24                           ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-20 22:33                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-20 23:14                               ` [Intel-wired-lan] " Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-20 23:49                                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-21  0:00                                   ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-29 12:25                                     ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-29 12:42                                       ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-29 12:48                                         ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-29 16:59                                           ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-31 12:00                                             ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-31 14:40                                               ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-31 14:45                                                 ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-31 15:14                                                   ` Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-31 15:20                                                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-31 16:13                                                       ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-31 19:57                                                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2023-10-31 16:12                                                     ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-31 14:59                                               ` Alexander Duyck
2023-10-31 16:11                                                 ` Gal Pressman
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/6] ice: fix ICE_AQ_VSI_Q_OPT_RSS_* register values Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/6] ice: refactor RSS configuration Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 4/6] ice: refactor the FD and RSS flow ID generation Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 5/6] ice: enable symmetric RSS Toeplitz hash for any flow type Ahmed Zaki
2023-10-16 15:49 ` [PATCH net-next v4 6/6] iavf: enable symmetric RSS Toeplitz hash Ahmed Zaki

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