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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
To: Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	pv-drivers@vmware.com, Guolin Yang <gyang@vmware.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] vmxnet3: introduce command to register memory region
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2016 08:54:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3xEMgpK5n8SgEAXh-7UOea1GezkAF4g0bjdULjzKgR7hmndA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1465869007-10822-7-git-send-email-skhare@vmware.com>

On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Shrikrishna Khare <skhare@vmware.com> wrote:

> +++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_defs.h
> @@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ enum {
>         VMXNET3_CMD_RESERVED2,
>         VMXNET3_CMD_RESERVED3,
>         VMXNET3_CMD_SET_COALESCE,
> +       VMXNET3_CMD_REGISTER_MEMREGS,
>
>         VMXNET3_CMD_FIRST_GET = 0xF00D0000,
>         VMXNET3_CMD_GET_QUEUE_STATUS = VMXNET3_CMD_FIRST_GET,
> @@ -668,6 +669,22 @@ struct Vmxnet3_CoalesceScheme {
>         } coalPara;
>  };
>
> +struct Vmxnet3_MemoryRegion {
> +       __le64                                  startPA;
> +       __le32                                  length;
> +       __le16                                  txQueueBits;
> +       __le16                                  rxQueueBits;
> +};


What is the use case for this command?

What's the role of the tx/rx queue bits fields?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-06-14  5:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-14  1:50 [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade to version 3 Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 1/7] vmxnet3: prepare for version 3 changes Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] vmxnet3: introduce generic command interface to configure the device Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 3/7] vmxnet3: allow variable length transmit data ring buffer Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 4/7] vmxnet3: add receive data ring support Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 5/7] vmxnet3: add support for get_coalesce, set_coalesce ethtool operations Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14 15:04   ` Ben Hutchings
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 6/7] vmxnet3: introduce command to register memory region Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  5:54   ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2016-06-14  1:50 ` [PATCH net-next v3 7/7] vmxnet3: update to version 3 Shrikrishna Khare
2016-06-14  5:52 ` [PATCH net-next v3 0/7] vmxnet3: upgrade " Or Gerlitz
2016-06-15  7:23 ` David Miller

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