netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 00/17] netdev: Fix queue count initialisation

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Date:	Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:02:07 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 00/17] netdev: Fix queue count
 initialisation

On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 22:12 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:23:11 +0100
> 
> > This adds the functions:
> > - netif_set_real_num_rx_queues() - set actual number of RX queues used
> > - netif_copy_real_num_queues() - copy queue counts from another device
> > 
> > and changes all drivers that currently set
> > net_device::real_num_tx_queues to use netif_set_real_num_tx_queues()
> > and/or these functions.
> > 
> > The changes are compile-tested only, except that:
> > - sfc and 8021q have been briefly tested
> > - gianfar and mv643xx_eth have not been compiled, since they are
> >   platform-specific
> > 
> > I noticed that the bonding driver sets its numbers of queues without
> > regard to its slave devices.  This makes some sense since a bond device
> > initially has no slave devices.  However, it seems to mean that a bond
> > device can pass up an skb with an out-of-range queue_index, triggering a
> > warning in get_rps_cpu().
> 
> Series applied, thanks Ben.

That seems a bit premature, as the driver maintainers have not had a
chance to review these.  If it's not too late, perhaps you could roll
these changes back for now.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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