netdev - Re: [Patch v3] net: mana: Batch ringing RX queue doorbell on receiving packets

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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 09:11:29 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: longli@...uxonhyperv.com
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Leon
 Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>, Ajay Sharma <sharmaajay@...rosoft.com>,
 Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>, "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>,
 Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>, Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Long Li  <longli@...rosoft.com>,
 stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v3] net: mana: Batch ringing RX queue doorbell on
 receiving packets

On Thu, 29 Jun 2023 10:42:34 +0200 Paolo Abeni wrote:
> > While we are making changes in this code path, change the code for
> > ringing doorbell to set the WQE_COUNT to 0 for Receive Queue. The
> > hardware specification specifies that it should set to 0. Although
> > currently the hardware doesn't enforce the check, in the future releases
> > it may do.

And please split this cleanup into a separate patch, it doesn't sound
like it has to be done as part of the optimization.