netdev - Re: [PATCH] igb: add module param to set max-rss-queues.

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:40:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: add module param to set max-rss-queues.

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 14:20:56 -0700

> On 03/24/2017 02:12 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: greearb@...delatech.com
>> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 13:58:47 -0700
>>
>>> From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
>>>
>>> In systems where you may have a very large number of network
>>> adapters, certain drivers may consume an unfair amount of
>>> IRQ resources.  So, allow a module param that will limit the
>>> number of IRQs at driver load time.  This way, other drivers
>>> (40G Ethernet, for instance), which probably will need the
>>> multiple IRQs more, will not be starved of IRQ resources.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
>>
>> Sorry, no module params.
>>
>> Use generic run-time facilities such as ethtool to configure
>> such things.
> 
> You cannot call ethtool before module load time, and that is when
> the IRQs are first acquired.  It may be way more useful to give each
> of 20 network adapters 2 irqs than have the first few grab 16 and the
> rest
> get lumped into legacy crap.

Sorry, you'll have to find a way to fix this without a module
parameter.  I understand it might not be easy, but that's not
a reason to add countless driver private module parameters all
over the tree which is the worst user experience possible.