netdev - Re: [net-next 00/13][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-02-26

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Date:   Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:29:21 -0800
From:   Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>, sassmann@...hat.com,
        John Greene <jogreene@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/13][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2018-02-26

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:59 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:07:43 -0800
>
>> This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf only.
>  ...
>> Emil updates ixgbevf with several features and improvements done in
>> other drivers, starting with the handling of page addresses so that we
>> always refer to them using a void pointer.  Added a 'legacy-rx' flag to
>> allow switching between the old and new receive code paths.  Added
>> support for using 3K buggers in order 1 page.  Updated the driver to
>> ensure that calls to ixgbevf_open() are rtnl lock protected and improved
>> the error handling when setting up multiple queues.  Added support for
>> providing a buffer with head room and tail room to allow for shared
>> info, NET_SKB_PAD, and NET_IP_ALIGN, so that we can start using
>> build_skb to build frames instead of using memcpy() the headers.
>> Updated the logic of handling rings closer to ixgbe.  Consolidated the
>> receive paths to reduce duplication when we expand them in the future.
>> Added build_skb() support to ixgbevf.
>
> This seems to suggest that XDP support for ixgbevf is coming next? :-)

So we are currently reviewing it as RFC on the intel-wired-lan mailing list:
https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/intel-wired-lan/Week-of-Mon-20180226/011810.html

I'll work with Tony to see if we can Cc netdev when he submits this
next to intel-wired-lan.

Thanks.

- Alex