netdev - Re: [PATCH v8 net-next] net: hyperv: dump TX indirection table to ethtool regs

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Date:   Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:18:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     chisong@...ux.microsoft.com
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        wei.liu@...nel.org, kuba@...nel.org, linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 net-next] net: hyperv: dump TX indirection table to
 ethtool regs

From: Chi Song <chisong@...ux.microsoft.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 21:14:26 -0700

> An imbalanced TX indirection table causes netvsc to have low
> performance. This table is created and managed during runtime. To help
> better diagnose performance issues caused by imbalanced tables, it needs
> make TX indirection tables visible.
> 
> Because TX indirection table is driver specified information, so
> display it via ethtool register dump.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chi Song <chisong@...rosoft.com>

Applied, thank you.