netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] fm10k: correctly report error when changing number of channels

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Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 13:26:32 +0000
From:	Jakub Kicinski <moorray3@...pl>
To:	Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@...el.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] fm10k: correctly report error when changing number
 of channels

Hi Jacob!

First of all thanks for putting your time into sorting this out,
figuring out what to do with user-set RSS table when queues are
reconfigured was a head scratcher for me as well.

On Fri,  5 Feb 2016 12:30:21 -0800, Jacob Keller wrote:
> +#define FM10K_FLAG_RETA_TABLE_CONFIGURED	(u32)(BIT(6))

If we go with your proposal every driver will have to keep track of 
how the RSS table was set and find max value on queue reconfig -
replicating effort and leaving space for diverging behaviour...

Would it be worth considering to place more of this code in the core?