netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ionic: centralize queue reset code

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Date:   Mon, 6 Jul 2020 10:33:05 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ionic: centralize queue reset code

On Thu,  2 Jul 2020 16:39:17 -0700 Shannon Nelson wrote:
> The queue reset pattern is used in a couple different places,
> only slightly different from each other, and could cause
> issues if one gets changed and the other didn't.  This puts
> them together so that only one version is needed, yet each
> can have slighty different effects by passing in a pointer
> to a work function to do whatever configuration twiddling is
> needed in the middle of the reset.
> 
> Fixes: 4d03e00a2140 ("ionic: Add initial ethtool support")
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>

Is this fixing anything?

I think the pattern of having a separate structure describing all the
parameters and passing that into reconfig is a better path forward,
because it's easier to take that forward in the correct direction of
allocating new resources before old ones are freed. IOW not doing a
full close/open.

E.g. nfp_net_set_ring_size().