netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/6] sfc: TXQ refactor

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Message-ID: <20200905122427.531f31bd@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>
Date:   Sat, 5 Sep 2020 12:24:27 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Edward Cree <ecree@...arflare.com>
Cc:     <linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 0/6] sfc: TXQ refactor

On Thu, 3 Sep 2020 22:30:58 +0100 Edward Cree wrote:
> Refactor and unify partner-TXQ handling in the EF100 and legacy drivers.
> 
> The main thrust of this series is to remove from the legacy (Siena/EF10)
>  driver the assumption that a netdev TX queue has precisely two hardware
>  TXQs (checksummed and unchecksummed) associated with it, so that in
>  future we can have more (e.g. for handling inner-header checksums) or
>  fewer (e.g. to free up hardware queues for XDP usage).
> 
> Changes from v1:
>  * better explain patch #1 in the commit message, and rename
>    xmit_more_available to xmit_pending
>  * add new patch #2 applying the same approach to ef100, for consistency

Applied, thanks!