Re: [net-next PATCH 0/3] Dynamically allocate BPIDs

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Thu Jan 25 2024 - 21:16:55 EST


On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 11:20:11 +0530 Geetha sowjanya wrote:
> Current hw support 512 backpressure(BP) Ids. These BPIDs are
> statically reserved among 4 interface types based on number
> of channels supported. Latest HW support configuring
> multiple BPIDs per channel. To support this feature, the
> patch set creates BPIDs free pool from the BPIDs reserved for
> LBK channel as, LBK uses single BPIDs across multiple channels
> and on request it dynamically allocates N number of bpids
> from the free pool. This patch also reworks the LBK device id
> checks.

I looked at this for 20 min, I don't understand how this fits together.
Please improve the commit messages to also explain the functionality
and how user interacts with the features.