netdev - Re: net/mlx4: Mellanox driver update 01-01-2014

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Date:	Thu, 20 Feb 2014 22:15:47 +0200
From:	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, yevgenyp@...lanox.com,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: net/mlx4: Mellanox driver update 01-01-2014

On 19/02/14 16:50 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:58:01 +0200
> 
> > V0 of this patch was sent before previous net-next got closed, and
> > now we would like to resume it.
> > 
> > Yuval has reworked the affinity hint patch, according to Ben's comments. The
> > patch was actually rewritten.
> > After a discussion with Yuval Mintz, use of netif_get_num_default_rss_queues()
> > is not reverted, but done in the right place. Instead of limiting the number of
> > IRQ's for the driver it will limit the number of queues in RSS.
> > 
> > Patchset was applied and tested against commit: cb6e926 "ipv6:fix checkpatch
> > errors with assignment in if condition"
> 
> Influencing IRQs to be allocated on the same NUMA code as the one where
> the card resides doesn't sound like an mlx4 specific desire to me.
> 
> Other devices, both networking and non-networking, probably might like
> that as well.
> 
> Therefore doing this by hand in a specific driver doesn't seem
> appropriate at all.

I agree. Will try to find a way to make it generic and resubmit this
patch.
Please continue with the review of the other patches by Ido, that will
fix the way netif_get_num_default_rss_queues() is used in Mellanox
driver.

Thanks,
Amir
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