[PATCH v3 net-next 13/14] net: enetc: use alloc_etherdev_mqs() to create netdev for VF driver
From: <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-03 10:43:30
Also in:
imx, linux-arm-kernel, lkml, netdev
Subsystem:
freescale enetc ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Claudiu Manoil, Vladimir Oltean, Wei Fang, Clark Wang, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
From: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
The VF driver uses alloc_etherdev_mq() with ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS as the
queue count, which forces the TX and RX queue counts to be equal and
uses a compile-time constant rather than the actual hardware capability.
After enetc_get_si_caps() is called, si->num_tx_rings and
si->num_rx_rings reflect the actual number of rings assigned to the VF
by the PF. For the ENETC VF on LS1028A and the upcoming i.MX95/94, their
SoCs have no more than 6 CPUs, and the number of TX/RX rings allocated
to the VF is less than 8.
Therefore, switch to alloc_etherdev_mqs() so that the TX and RX queue
counts are set independently, each capped at ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS, based
on the actual number of rings assigned to the VF by the PF.
Note that if future SoCs have more than 6 CPUs and more than 6 RX rings
allocated to VFs, the size of the int_vector array in struct
enetc_ndev_priv will need to be modified. Similarly, if more than 8 TX
rings are allocated to each int_vector, ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS will also
need to be modified.
Signed-off-by: Wei Fang <wei.fang@nxp.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_vf.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_vf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_vf.c
index 9cdb0a4d6baf..7dcb4a0246f5 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_vf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/enetc/enetc_vf.c
@@ -317,7 +317,14 @@ static int enetc_vf_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
enetc_get_si_caps(si);
- ndev = alloc_etherdev_mq(sizeof(*priv), ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS);
+ /* Currently, the supported SoCs have a max of 6 CPUs and the VFs
+ * have less than 6 RX/TX rings. So no issues for these supported
+ * SoCs, but for future SoCs which have more CPUs or more TX/RX
+ * rings, all the related logic needs to be improved.
+ */
+ ndev = alloc_etherdev_mqs(sizeof(*priv),
+ min(si->num_tx_rings, ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS),
+ min(si->num_rx_rings, ENETC_MAX_NUM_TXQS));
if (!ndev) {
err = -ENOMEM;
dev_err(&pdev->dev, "netdev creation failed\n");--
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