netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: provides dim profile fine-tuning channels

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Message-ID: <20240314114955.71ada20c@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 11:49:55 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Heng Qi <hengqi@...ux.alibaba.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Tal Gilboa <talgi@...dia.com>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Jason
 Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>, Xuan
 Zhuo <xuanzhuo@...ux.alibaba.com>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Randy
 Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>, Breno
 Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>, Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 virtualization@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] net: provides dim profile fine-tuning channels

On Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:09:31 +0800 Heng Qi wrote:
> The NetDIM library provides excellent acceleration for many modern
> network cards. However, the default profiles of DIM limits its maximum
> capabilities for different NICs, so providing a channel through which
> the NIC can be custom configured is necessary.

Given that DIM is currently enabled and disable via ethtool
why are you putting the API is sysfs and ops in ndo?