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Broadcom? > IIRC they wanted more flexibility, i.e. being able to set the > guaranteed and max allowed queue count. > > Overall this seems like a typical resource division problem so > we should try to use the devlink resource API or similar. More > complex policies like guaranteed+max are going to be a pain over > params. > > > I wanted to ask a more general question, however. I see that you > haven't CCed even the major (for some def.) vendors' maintainers. Sorry about that. I should have considered doing so in the first place. > Would it be helpful for participation if we had a separate mailing > list for discussing driver uAPI introduction which would hopefully > be lower traffic? Or perhaps we can require a subject tag ([PATCH > net-next uapi] ?) so that people can set up email filters? > > The cost is obviously yet another process thing to remember, and > while this is nothing that lore+lei can't already do based on file > path filters - I doubt y'all care enough to set that up for > yourselves... :) Not defending myself here. And not sure if this is helpful. But the issue for me at the time was not being clear on how to reach the right audience.