netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 09/11] eth: bnxt: bump the entry size in indir tables to u32

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Message-ID: <969b53a8-0f66-4b5b-9465-c2e5d6d4164b@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 16:02:38 +0200
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <edumazet@...gle.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<pabeni@...hat.com>, <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>, <michael.chan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/11] eth: bnxt: bump the entry size in indir
 tables to u32

On 7/3/24 15:49, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 12:51:58 +0200 Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>> OTOH, I assume we need this in-driver table only to keep it over the
>> up→down→up cycle. Could we just keep it as inactive in the core?
>> (And xa_mark() it as inactive to avoid reporting to the user or any
>> other actions that we want to avoid)
> 
> Do you mean keep the table for the default context / context 0
> in the core as well?
> 

it was not obvious for me that this is only about the default one,
but that would yield more uniformity and cleanups I guess