Re: [PATCH net-next V3] net: ena: Add a driver for Amazon Elastic Network Adapters (ENA)

From: Matt Wilson
Date: Thu Jul 14 2016 - 11:22:30 EST


On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 09:46:14AM +0300, Netanel Belgazal wrote:
> This is a driver for the ENA family of networking devices.
>
> Signed-off-by: Netanel Belgazal <netanel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> Changes in v3:
> - Fix compilation warning for 32bit systems. [kbuild test rebot]
> - Replace netdev->num_tx_queues with adapter->num_queues in ethtool. [ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Use get_link_ksettings instread of get_settings (deprecated ethtool API). [ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Remove rna_nway_reset (ethtool). [ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Add missing break in switch condition. [ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Increase driver version to 1.0.2
>
> Changes in v2:
> - Increment driver version to 1.0.1
> - Reorder the initialization of the workqueus and the timer service
> - Initialize last_keep_alive_jiffies in probe
> - Remove ena_trc_* functions in favor of pr_* [davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Fix Tx interrupt control register value [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Edit ena.txt to focus on technical details [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Rename small_copy_len tunable to rx_copybreak [benjamin.poirier@xxxxxxxxx]
> - Change uint32_t to u32 [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Return error in ena_com_set_hash_ctrl [rami.rosen@xxxxxxxxx]
> - Fix API documentation [rami.rosen@xxxxxxxxx]
> - Remove redundant check in ena_com_mem_addr_set [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Add local variables for allocation methods to improve readability [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Replace dma_alloc_coherent and __GFP_ZERO flag with dma_zalloc_coherent [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Fix style when using dma_alloc_coherent [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Tx xmit - In case of an error drop the packet and return NETDEV_TX_OK [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Reduce the number of parameters in ena_get_dev_stats [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Return ret and not 0 in ena_com_set_hash_ctrl [rami.rosen@xxxxxxxxx]
> - Do not initialize variables if the function doesn't read them before the second write [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Enums - Replace space with tabs to line the assign value [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> - Remove redundant comments [romieu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>
> TODO:
> - Add bytes variable to set_coalesce ethtool callback and use this callback
> instead of dedicated sysfs files.

Dave and Benjamin,

Do you want to see the interrupt moderation extensions to ethtool and
the sysfs nodes removed before this lands in net-next? Or should
Netanel remove the sysfs bits until we can extend the ethtool
interfaces to cover the parameters that ena uses?

--msw