netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v6] ethtool: add netlink based get rss support

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Date:   Wed, 30 Nov 2022 21:18:00 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari@...el.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mkubecek@...e.cz, andrew@...n.ch,
        corbet@....net, sridhar.samudrala@...el.com,
        anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6] ethtool: add netlink based get rss support

On Mon, 28 Nov 2022 09:55:56 -0800 Sudheer Mogilappagari wrote:
> Add netlink based support for "ethtool -x <dev> [context x]"
> command by implementing ETHTOOL_MSG_RSS_GET netlink message.
> This is equivalent to functionality provided via ETHTOOL_GRSSH
> in ioctl path. It sends RSS table, hash key and hash function
> of an interface to user space.
> 
> This patch implements existing functionality available
> in ioctl path and enables addition of new RSS context
> based parameters in future.

Please try make htmldocs, the tables below are mis-formatted.

> +=====================================  ======  ==========================
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HEADER``             nested  request header
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_CONTEXT``            u32     context number
> + ====================================  ======  ==========================
> +
> +Kernel response contents:
> +
> +=====================================  ======  ==========================
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HEADER``             nested  reply header
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HFUNC``              u32     RSS hash func
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_INDIR``              binary  Indir table bytes
> +  ``ETHTOOL_A_RSS_HKEY``               binary  Hash key bytes
> + ====================================  ======  ==========================

> +static int
> +rss_reply_size(const struct ethnl_req_info *req_base,
> +	       const struct ethnl_reply_data *reply_base)
> +{
> +	const struct rss_reply_data *data = RSS_REPDATA(reply_base);
> +	int len;
> +
> +	len =  nla_total_size(sizeof(u32)) +	/* _RSS_HFUNC */
> +	       nla_total_size(sizeof(u32) * data->indir_size) + /* _RSS_INDIR */
> +	       nla_total_size(data->hkey_size);	/* _RSS_HKEY */

nit: double space after =