From: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@gmail.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>, edward.cree@amd.com
Cc: linux-net-drivers@amd.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
habetsm.xilinx@gmail.com, sudheer.mogilappagari@intel.com,
jdamato@fastly.com, andrew@lunn.ch, mw@semihalf.com,
sgoutham@marvell.com, gakula@marvell.com, sbhatta@marvell.com,
hkelam@marvell.com, saeedm@nvidia.com, leon@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 2/7] net: ethtool: attach an IDR of custom RSS contexts to a netdevice
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:22:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b2da6ed4-9475-6e49-709f-db87dcf8c810@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZQCThixvWBoCeT4r@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On 12/09/2023 17:36, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 03:21:37PM +0100, edward.cree@amd.com wrote:
>> + struct idr rss_ctx;
>
> https://docs.kernel.org/core-api/idr.html
>
> "The IDR interface is deprecated; please use the XArray instead."
IDR is a wrapper around XArray these days, right?
When I looked into the equivalent to use XArray directly it looked much
more complicated for flexibility that really isn't needed here.
Is there an explanation you can point me at of why this extremely
convenient wrapper is deprecated?
-e
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-13 11:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 14:21 [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 0/7] ethtool: track custom RSS contexts in the core edward.cree
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 1/7] net: move ethtool-related netdev state into its own struct edward.cree
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 2/7] net: ethtool: attach an IDR of custom RSS contexts to a netdevice edward.cree
2023-09-12 16:36 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-09-13 11:22 ` Edward Cree [this message]
2023-09-13 15:10 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 3/7] net: ethtool: record custom RSS contexts in the IDR edward.cree
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 4/7] net: ethtool: let the core choose RSS context IDs edward.cree
2023-09-19 11:10 ` Martin Habets
2023-09-19 14:36 ` Edward Cree
2023-09-20 9:05 ` Martin Habets
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 5/7] net: ethtool: add an extack parameter to new rxfh_context APIs edward.cree
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 6/7] net: ethtool: add a mutex protecting RSS contexts edward.cree
2023-09-12 16:40 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2023-09-13 11:24 ` Edward Cree
2023-09-12 14:21 ` [RFC PATCH v3 net-next 7/7] sfc: use new rxfh_context API edward.cree
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