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

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Date:	Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:22:01 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ameen.rahman@...gic.com, sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com,
	anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4 NEXT 1/1] net: ethtool support to configure number of
 channels

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 04:58 -0700, Amit Kumar 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>
Reviewed-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Sorry for the delay.

Ben.

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