linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 054/147] sfc: add and use efx_tx_send

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Date:   Tue, 27 Oct 2020 13:24:24 +0000
From:   Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <stable@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 5.9 054/147] sfc: add and use efx_tx_send_pending
 in tx.c

On 26/10/2020 23:47, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 1c0544d24927e4fad04f858216b8ea767a3bd123 ]
>
> Instead of using efx_tx_queue_partner(), which relies on the assumption
>  that tx_queues_per_channel is 2, efx_tx_send_pending() iterates over
>  txqs with efx_for_each_channel_tx_queue().
That assumption was valid for the code as of v5.9; this change was only
 needed to support the extra queues that were added for encap offloads.
Thus, this patch shouldn't be backported, unless -stable is also planning
 to backport that feature (e.g. 0ce8df661456, 24b2c3751aa3), which I
 doubt (it's nearly 20 patches, and can't be considered a bugfix).

-ed