netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS indirection table and key

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Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:34:38 -0800
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@...udius-systems.com>
Cc:	Greg Rose <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Gleb Natapov <gleb@...udius-systems.com>,
	avi@...udius-systems.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5]: ixgbevf: Allow querying VFs RSS
 indirection table and key

On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 21:30 +0200, Vlad Zolotarov wrote:
> On 12/30/14 21:28, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 21:00 +0200, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote:
> >> On Dec 30, 2014 8:52 PM, "Jeff Kirsher" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 20:50 +0200, Vladislav Zolotarov wrote:
> >>>> On Dec 30, 2014 8:16 PM, "Jeff Kirsher"
> >> <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Vlad Zolotarov
> >>>>> <vladz@...udius-systems.com> wrote:
> >>>>>> Add the ethtool ops to VF driver to allow querying the RSS
> >>>> indirection table
> >>>>>> and RSS Random Key.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   - PF driver: Add new VF-PF channel commands.
> >>>>>>   - VF driver: Utilize these new commands and add the
> >> corresponding
> >>>>>>                ethtool callbacks.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Vlad Zolotarov (5):
> >>>>>>    ixgbe: Add a RETA query command to VF-PF channel API
> >>>>>>    ixgbevf: Add a RETA query code
> >>>>>>    ixgbe: Add GET_RSS_KEY command to VF-PF channel commands set
> >>>>>>    ixgbevf: Add RSS Key query code
> >>>>>>    ixgbevf: Add the appropriate ethtool ops to query RSS
> >>>> indirection
> >>>>>>      table and key
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_mbx.h      |   8 ++
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_sriov.c    |  60
> >>>> +++++++++++
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ethtool.c      |  37
> >> +++++++
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/ixgbevf_main.c |   4 +-
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/mbx.h          |   8 ++
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.c           | 125
> >>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++
> >>>>>>   drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbevf/vf.h           |   2 +
> >>>>>>   7 files changed, 243 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>> Remember to CC on patches against drivers in
> >>>> drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ please.
> >>>>
> >>>> To CC who? ;)
> >>>>
> >>> Sorry, I fat fingered that response.  Please CC me.
> >> Sure. NP.
> >> Since we are talking already, could u comment on the RFC? Does it look
> >> ok to you?
> >>
> >>
> > I have provided feedback on 3 of the patches, the others look ok to me.
> > I would like Greg Rose to look over your changes since he did most of
> > the ixgbevf work, and I want to make sure that he is fine with these
> > changes.
> 
> I saw them. Thanks, Jeff. I'll wait for Greg's comments before cooking 
> the final series then.
> 
> Again, thanks for a rapid response.
> 

Go ahead and send out a non-RFC series.  Greg is on vacation till the
5th anyway, so I will pick up your series and have my validation team
run it through their tests in the mean time.

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