linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ethtool: rss: prevent rss ctx deletion when in use

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Message-ID: <43a98a99-4c79-4954-82f1-b634e4d1be82@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:31:51 -0400
From: Daniel Zahka <daniel.zahka@...il.com>
To: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] ethtool: rss: prevent rss ctx deletion when
 in use

On 10/14/24 6:10 AM, Edward Cree wrote:
> Imho it would make more sense to add core tracking of ntuple
>   filters, along with a refcount on the rss context.  That way
>   context deletion just has to check the count is zero.
>
> -ed

That sounds good to me. Is that something you are planning on sending 
patches for?