netdev - Re: dynamically set number of queues for 82598 devices

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Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 2015 10:35:02 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	william@...di.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, talabudi@...il.com,
	emil.s.tantilov@...el.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Subject: Re: dynamically set number of queues for 82598 devices

From: William Dauchy <william@...di.net>
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 10:56:03 +0100

> Hello David,
> 
> On Oct29 16:26, William Dauchy wrote:
>> I faced the problem described in commit 7e3f5c8:
>> ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc for 82598
>> 
>> This patch resolves an issue where users were not able to dynamically
>> set number of queues for 82598 via ethtool -L
>> 
>> I backported it for my v4.1.x build but I was wondering if this could be
>> a candidate for a backport in stable tree at least for v4.1.x.
> 
> Since we are now in a bug fix period, I was wondering if you could have
> a look at commit 7e3f5c8 (ixgbe: fix bounds checking in ixgbe_setup_tc
> for 82598)
> I don't see it in
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/bundle/davem/stable/?state=*
> so I was wondering if it could be a valid candidate for stable.

The Intel ethernet folks handle their driver -stable submissions.
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