netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/8] net/mlx4_en: allow setting number of rx rings for, RSS/TCP

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Message-Id: <20111121.134309.970601561852715936.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:43:09 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, oren@...lanox.co.il, amirv@...lanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] net/mlx4_en: allow setting number of rx rings for,
 RSS/TCP

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:57:30 +0000

> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 10:43 +0200, Yevgeny Petrilin wrote:
>> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.co.il>
>> 
>> Make RSS TCP divert packets only to part of the rx rings, other could be
>> accessed by using flow steering or RFS acceleration
> [...]
> 
> The ethtool {get,set}_rxfh_indir operations are a standard and more
> flexible interface for configuring this.

Agreed, you should _NEVER_ add module options or private driver extensions
for such a common configuration setting.
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