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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: "Théo Lebrun" <theo.lebrun@bootlin.com>
Cc: "Nicolas Ferre" <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com>,
	"Claudiu Beznea" <claudiu.beznea@tuxon.dev>,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Vladimir Kondratiev" <vladimir.kondratiev@mobileye.com>,
	"Gregory CLEMENT" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
	"Benoît Monin" <benoit.monin@bootlin.com>,
	"Tawfik Bayouk" <tawfik.bayouk@mobileye.com>,
	"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
	"Paolo Valerio" <pvalerio@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: macb: implement ethtool_ops.get|set_channels()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 19:09:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260306190948.44d23f8f@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260305-macb-set-channels-v1-1-28e3a96a3dc3@bootlin.com>

On Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:20:14 +0100 Théo Lebrun wrote:
> +	if (!(bp->caps & MACB_CAPS_QUEUE_DISABLE))
> +		return -EOPNOTSUPP;

Why not set max to 1 in this case?

> +	if (!count || ch->rx_count || ch->tx_count)
> +		return -EINVAL;

Core should check this for you already

> +	if (count > bp->max_num_queues)
> +		return -EINVAL;

and this

> +	if (count == old_count)
> +		return 0;
> +
> +	if (running)
> +		macb_close(bp->dev);
> +
> +	bp->num_queues = count;
> +	netif_set_real_num_queues(bp->dev, count, count);
> +
> +	if (running) {
> +		ret = macb_open(bp->dev);
> +		if (ret) {
> +			bp->num_queues = old_count;
> +			netif_set_real_num_queues(bp->dev, old_count, old_count);
> +			macb_open(bp->dev);

both macb_open() calls may fail under memory pressure
For new functionality we ask drivers to allocate all necessary
resources upfront then just swap them in and reconfigure HW
-- 
pw-bot: cr

  reply	other threads:[~2026-03-07  3:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-05 17:20 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: macb: implement ethtool set channels count operation Théo Lebrun
2026-03-05 17:20 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: macb: implement ethtool_ops.get|set_channels() Théo Lebrun
2026-03-07  3:09   ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2026-03-09 17:04     ` Théo Lebrun
2026-03-09 21:15       ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-03-10  9:42         ` Théo Lebrun
2026-03-05 17:20 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: macb: distribute evenly Tx SRAM segments Théo Lebrun
2026-03-07  3:07   ` Jakub Kicinski

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