netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] enic: allow adaptive coalesce setting for msi/legacy intr

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2015 12:39:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	_govind@....com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ssujith@...co.com, benve@...co.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] enic: allow adaptive coalesce setting for
 msi/legacy intr

From: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 15:34:40 +0530

> * Allow setting of adaptive coalescing setting for all types of interrupt.
> 
> * In msi & legacy intr, we use single interrupt for rx & tx. In this case
>   tx_coalesce_usecs is invalid. We should use only rx_coalesce_usecs.
>   Do not display tx_coal values for msi/intx. And do not allow user to set
>   this as well.
> 
> * Driver supports only tx/rx_coalesce_usec and adaptive coalesce settings.
>   For other values, driver does not return error. So ethtool succeeds for
>   unsupported values. Introduce enic_coalesce_valid() function to validate
>   the coalescing values.
> 
> * If user requests for coalesce value greater than what adaptor supports,
>   driver uses the max value. We should at least log this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Govindarajulu Varadarajan <_govind@....com>

Applied.
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