netdev - Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/4] use bulk reads for ocelot statistics

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Date:   Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:40:11 +0000
From:   patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To:     Colin Foster <colin.foster@...advantage.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        kuba@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, UNGLinuxDriver@...rochip.com,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, claudiu.manoil@....com,
        vladimir.oltean@....com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 net-next 0/4] use bulk reads for ocelot statistics

Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (master)
by David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>:

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 11:12:50 -0800 you wrote:
> Ocelot loops over memory regions to gather stats on different ports.
> These regions are mostly continuous, and are ordered. This patch set
> uses that information to break the stats reads into regions that can get
> read in bulk.
> 
> The motiviation is for general cleanup, but also for SPI. Performing two
> back-to-back reads on a SPI bus require toggling the CS line, holding,
> re-toggling the CS line, sending 3 address bytes, sending N padding
> bytes, then actually performing the read. Bulk reads could reduce almost
> all of that overhead, but require that the reads are performed via
> regmap_bulk_read.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [v7,net-next,1/4] net: mscc: ocelot: remove unnecessary stat reading from ethtool
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/e27d785e60b6
  - [v7,net-next,2/4] net: ocelot: align macros for consistency
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/65c53595bc2a
  - [v7,net-next,3/4] net: mscc: ocelot: add ability to perform bulk reads
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/40f3a5c81555
  - [v7,net-next,4/4] net: mscc: ocelot: use bulk reads for stats
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/d87b1c08f38a

You are awesome, thank you!
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