Re: [RFC PATCH v2 10/10] ixgbe: Add support for set_channels ethtool operation

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Thu, 2013-01-10 at 10:58 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> This change adds support for the ethtool set_channels operation.
> 
> Since the ixgbe driver has to support DCB as well as the other modes the
> assumption I made here is that the number of channels in DCB modes refers
> to the number of queues per traffic class, not the number of queues total.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>

In DCB mode are there separate IRQs for the different classes?

[...]
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethtool.c
> @@ -2775,6 +2775,45 @@ static void ixgbe_get_channels(struct net_device *dev,
>  	ch->combined_count = adapter->ring_feature[RING_F_FDIR].indices;
>  }
>  
> +static int ixgbe_set_channels(struct net_device *dev,
> +			      struct ethtool_channels *ch)
> +{
> +	struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter = netdev_priv(dev);
> +	unsigned int count = ch->combined_count;
> +
> +	/* verify they are not requesting separate vectors */
> +	if (ch->rx_count || ch->tx_count)
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	/* ignore other_count since it is not changeable */
[...]

Please do return an error if the command specifies a change to
other_count.

Ben.

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