netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: allocate rx queues in register

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Date:	Sun, 26 Sep 2010 19:05:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com, therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: allocate rx queues in
 register_netdevice only

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:26:35 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: allocate rx queues in register_netdevice()
> 
> Instead of having two places were we allocate dev->_rx, introduce
> netif_alloc_rx_queues() helper and call it only from
> register_netdevice(), not from alloc_netdev_mq()
> 
> Goal is to let drivers change dev->num_rx_queues after allocating netdev
> and before registering it.
> 
> This also removes a lot of ifdefs in net/core/dev.c
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

Please cook up a patch that adds a check to make sure that
alloc_netdev_mq() is never called with number of queues < 1

Thanks again!

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