netdev - RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of channels

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 13:03:17 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc:	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ameen Rahman <ameen.rahman@...gic.com>,
	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of
 channels

On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 04:45 -0500, Amit Salecha wrote:
> > Ethtool support to configure RX, TX and other channels. combined field
> > in struct ethtool_channels to reflect set of channel (RX, TX or other).
> > Other channel can be link interrupts, SR-IOV coordination etc.
> >
> > ETHTOOL_GCHANNELS will report max and current number of RX channels,
> > max and current number of TX channels, max and current number of other
> > channel
> > or max and current number of combined channel.
> >
> > Number of channel can be modify upto max number of channel through
> > ETHTOOL_SCHANNELS command.
> >
> > Ben Hutchings:
> > o define 'combined' and 'other' types.  Most multiqueue drivers pair up
> > RX and TX
> >   queues so that most channels combine RX and TX work.
> > o Please could you use a kernel-doc comment to describe the structure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
> 
> Neither I see this patch in http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ nor any comment.
> Just curious, is this patch discarded along with my other garbage patches ?

It's marked as 'deferred'; not sure what that means:

http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/90166/

Ben.

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