netdev - Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2020-05-19

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Date:   Wed, 20 May 2020 10:48:20 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Andre Guedes <andre.guedes@...el.com>
Cc:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, nhorman@...hat.com, sassmann@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 00/14][pull request] 1GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver
 Updates 2020-05-19

On Wed, 20 May 2020 10:43:09 -0700 Andre Guedes wrote:
> Quoting Jakub Kicinski (2020-05-19 19:00:26)
> > On Tue, 19 May 2020 17:04:05 -0700 Jeff Kirsher wrote:  
> > > This series contains updates to igc only.
> > > 
> > > Sasha cleans up the igc driver code that is not used or needed.
> > > 
> > > Vitaly cleans up driver code that was used to support Virtualization on
> > > a device that is not supported by igc, so remove the dead code.
> > > 
> > > Andre renames a few macros to align with register and field names
> > > described in the data sheet.  Also adds the VLAN Priority Queue Fliter
> > > and EType Queue Filter registers to the list of registers dumped by
> > > igc_get_regs().  Added additional debug messages and updated return codes
> > > for unsupported features.  Refactored the VLAN priority filtering code to
> > > move the core logic into igc_main.c.  Cleaned up duplicate code and
> > > useless code.  
> > 
> > No automated warnings :)
> > 
> > It's a little strange how both TCI and ETYPE filters take the queue ID.
> > Looking at the code it's not immediately clear which one take
> > precedence. Can I install two rules for the same TCI and different ETYPE
> > or vice versa?  
> 
> Although the driver currently accepts such rules, they don't work as expected
> (as you probably noticed already). Jeff has already a patch in his queue
> fixing this issue.

Okay, looking forward to those fixes.

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

> And just clarifying, ETYPE filters precede VLAN priority filters.