netdev - Re: [PATCH ethtool v2] ethtool: add support for RSS input transformation

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Message-ID: <6e397de5-5337-4e74-9311-4e4b8415c869@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:12:06 -0600
From: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>
To: <mkubecek@...e.cz>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <alexander.duyck@...il.com>,
	<willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com>, <gal@...dia.com>,
	<jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
	<davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <horms@...nel.org>,
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, <andrew@...n.ch>, Aleksandr Loktionov
	<aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>, Michal Swiatkowski
	<michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ethtool v2] ethtool: add support for RSS input
 transformation



On 2024-02-21 11:24 a.m., Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:54:13 -0700 Ahmed Zaki wrote:
>> On 2024-02-02 7:33 p.m., Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>>> On Fri,  2 Feb 2024 13:25:20 -0700 Ahmed Zaki wrote:
>>>> Add support for RSS input transformation [1]. Currently, only symmetric-xor
>>>> is supported. The user can set the RSS input transformation via:
>>>>
>>>>       # ethtool -X <dev> xfrm symmetric-xor
>>>>
>>>> and sets it off (default) by:
>>>>
>>>>       # ethtool -X <dev> xfrm none
>>>>
>>>> The status of the transformation is reported by a new section at the end
>>>> of "ethtool -x":
>>>>
>>>>       # ethtool -x <dev>
>>>>         .
>>>>         .
>>>>         .
>>>>         .
>>>>         RSS hash function:
>>>>             toeplitz: on
>>>>             xor: off
>>>>             crc32: off
>>>>         RSS input transformation:
>>>>             symmetric-xor: on
>>>>
>>>> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231213003321.605376-1-ahmed.zaki@intel.com/
>>>> Reviewed-by: Aleksandr Loktionov <aleksandr.loktionov@...el.com>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Michal Swiatkowski <michal.swiatkowski@...ux.intel.com>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>
>> I am not sure what is the status with this. patchwork is showing it as
>> archived.
>>
>> We are close to the end of the release cycle and I am worried there
>> might be last minute requests.
> 
> patchwork auto-archives after a month. Michal, would you be able to
> scan thru ethtool patches at least once every three weeks to avoid this?

Hello Michal,

This was auto-archived a while ago by patchwork, but it should be 
included in ethtool 6.8.

Please let me know if you need a RESEND or any other changes.

Thanks.