Re: [net-next 10/11] net/mlx5e: Implement queue mgmt ops and single channel swap

Jakub Kicinski
2025-01-16T23:54:52Z

On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:46:43 -0800 Saeed Mahameed wrote:
> >We need to pay off some technical debt we accrued before we merge more
> >queue ops implementations. Specifically the locking needs to move from
> >under rtnl. Sorry, this is not going in for 6.14.
>
> What technical debt accrued ? I haven't seen any changes in queue API since
> bnxt and gve got merged, what changed since then ?
>
> mlx5 doesn't require rtnl if this is because of the assert, I can remove
> it. I don't understand what this series is being deferred for, please
> elaborate, what do I need to do to get it accepted ?

Remove the dependency on rtnl_lock _in the core kernel_.