netdev - Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 0/5] ibmvnic: Make driver resources dynamic

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Date:   Wed, 21 Feb 2018 14:22:15 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 net-next 0/5] ibmvnic: Make driver resources dynamic

From: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 13:29:55 -0600

> The ibmvnic driver needs to be able to handle the number of tx/rx
> sub-crqs changing during a reset of the driver. To do this several
> changes need to be made. First the num_active_[tx|rx]_pools
> counters need to be re-named to num_active_[tc|rx]_scrqs, and
> updated after resource initialization.
> 
> With this change we can now release and init the sub crqs and napi
> (for rx sub crqs) when the number of sub crqs change.
> 
> Lastly, the stats buffer allocation is updated to always allocate
> the maximum number of sub-crqs count of stats buffers.

Series applied, thanks Nathan.