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

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Message-ID: <20201101235235.GB2092@sasha-vm>
Date:   Sun, 1 Nov 2020 18:52:35 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
        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 Tue, Oct 27, 2020 at 01:24:24PM +0000, Edward Cree wrote:
>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).

Right, now dropped - thanks!

-- 
Thanks,
Sasha