netdev - Re: [net-next 0/3][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2016-10-03

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Date:   Mon, 03 Oct 2016 23:29:19 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com,
        jogreene@...hat.com, guru.anbalagane@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 0/3][pull request] 40GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2016-10-03

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon,  3 Oct 2016 19:25:00 -0700

> This series contains fixes to i40e only.
> 
> Stefan Assmann provides the changes in this series to resolve an issue
> where when we run out of MSIx vectors, iWARP gets disabled automatically.
> First adds a check for "no vectors left" during MSIx vector allocation
> for VMDq, which will prevent more vectors being allocated than available.
> Then fixed the MSIx vector redistribution when we reach the hardware limit
> for vectors so that additional features like VMDq, iWARP, etc do not get
> starved for vectors because the PF is hogging all the resources.  Lastly,
> fix the issue for flow director by moving the check for the reaching the
> vector limit earlier in the code so that a decision can be made on
> disabling flow director.
> 
> The following are changes since commit b9118b7221ebb12156d2b08d4d5647bc6076d6bb:
>   ptp: Fix resource leak in case of error
> and are available in the git repository at:
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/next-queue 40GbE

Pulled, thanks Jeff.