RE: [PATCH V3 1/6] net/ethtool: introduce a new ioctl for per queue setting

["Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@intel.com>]

> 
> On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 09:08 -0500, kan.liang@intel.com wrote:
> [...]
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/ethtool.h
> > @@ -1144,6 +1144,21 @@ enum ethtool_sfeatures_retval_bits {
> >  #define ETHTOOL_F_WISH          (1 << ETHTOOL_F_WISH__BIT)
> >  #define ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT        (1 << ETHTOOL_F_COMPAT__BIT)
> >
> > +#define MAX_NUM_QUEUE		4096
> > +
> > +/**
> > + * struct ethtool_per_queue_op - apply sub command to the queues in
> mask.
> > + * @cmd: ETHTOOL_PERQUEUE
> > + * @sub_command: the sub command which apply to each queues
> > + * @queue_mask: Bitmap of the queues which sub command apply to
> > + * @data: A complete command structure following for each of the
> > +queues addressed  */ struct ethtool_per_queue_op {
> > +	__u32	cmd;
> > +	__u32	sub_command;
> > +	unsigned long
> queue_mask[BITS_TO_LONGS(MAX_NUM_QUEUE)];
> [...]
> 
> I thought we already agreed that this won't work for 32-bit userland on a
> big-endian 64-bit kernel?

I found David Decotigny's patch. https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/14/728
But it looks like it is not merged yet. 
Any idea when it will be merged to net-next or net?
So I can build my patch on top of his patch.

Thanks,
Kan

> 
> Ben.
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