netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 10/12] ethtool: rss: support skipping contexts during dump

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Message-ID: <10ebe2d1-ed38-99ae-4dcc-eee7282b7522@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2024 15:27:27 +0100
From: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, davem@...emloft.net
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
 dxu@...uu.xyz, przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com, donald.hunter@...il.com,
 gal.pressman@...ux.dev, tariqt@...dia.com, willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com,
 jdamato@...tly.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 10/12] ethtool: rss: support skipping contexts
 during dump

On 03/08/2024 05:26, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Applications may want to deal with dynamic RSS contexts only.
> So dumping context 0 will be counter-productive for them.
> Support starting the dump from a given context ID.
> 
> Alternative would be to implement a dump flag to skip just
> context 0, not sure which is better...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Edward Cree <ecree.xilinx@...il.com>

Start ID feels more elegant than skip-0 flag to me.