netdev - Re: [PATCH 09/15] ice: Configure VSIs for Tx/Rx

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Date:   Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:39:04 -0800
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>
Cc:     intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/15] ice: Configure VSIs for Tx/Rx

On Fri,  9 Mar 2018 09:21:30 -0800
Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com> wrote:

> This patch configures the VSIs to be able to send and receive
> packets by doing the following:
> 
> 1) Initialize flexible parser to extract and include certain
>    fields in the Rx descriptor.
> 
> 2) Add Tx queues by programming the Tx queue context (implemented in
>    ice_vsi_cfg_txqs). Note that adding the queues also enables (starts)
>    the queues.
> 
> 3) Add Rx queues by programming Rx queue context (implemented in
>    ice_vsi_cfg_rxqs). Note that this only adds queues but doesn't start
>    them. The rings will be started by calling ice_vsi_start_rx_rings on
>    interface up.
> 
> 4) Configure interrupts for VSI queues.
> 
> 5) Implement ice_open and ice_stop.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anirudh Venkataramanan <anirudh.venkataramanan@...el.com>

Mandatory Vonnegut reference
Is ice9 deadly?