netdev - Re: [RFC net-next 1/8] net: dsa: Allow switch drivers to indicate number of RX/TX queues

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Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2017 01:44:12 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jiri@...nulli.us, jhs@...atatu.com,
        davem@...emloft.net, xiyou.wangcong@...il.com,
        vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next 1/8] net: dsa: Allow switch drivers to indicate
 number of RX/TX queues

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 05:18:45PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Let switch drivers indicate how many RX and TX queues they support. Some
> switches, such as Broadcom Starfighter 2 are resigned with 8 egress
> queues.

Marvell switches also have egress queue.

Does the SF2 have ingress queues? Marvel don't as far as i known.  So
i wounder if num_rx_queues is useful?

Do switches in general have ingress queues? 

   Andrew