netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v11 01/11] octeontx2-pf: Refactoring RVU driver

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Message-ID: <ZsdLq8TdZhpNGnkG@nanopsycho.orion>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 16:31:07 +0200
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To: Geetha sowjanya <gakula@...vell.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kuba@...nel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	sgoutham@...vell.com, sbhatta@...vell.com, hkelam@...vell.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v11 01/11] octeontx2-pf: Refactoring RVU driver

Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 03:20:21PM CEST, gakula@...vell.com wrote:
>Refactoring and export list of shared functions such that
>they can be used by both RVU NIC and representor driver.
>
>The changes include:
>1. Moves nix_stats_lf_tx/rx structure definition into header file
>   so that it can be reused by the AF driver while fetching representor
>   port stats.
>2. Representor PF shares same mbox design as of RVU PF and have same HW
>   resources(TX/RX queues). Hence, mbox and HW resources configuration
>   function APIs are exported so that it can be used by representor driver.
>3. Moving the link type checks and tx credit configuration into common API.
>4. TX/RX queue memory operations are combined under new API.
>5. Add extraction of queue and vlan id to common API so that it can be
>  used while matching mcam traffic rules.

I see 5 patches at least then. Again, please have this as a separate
patchset, one logical change per patch.