Re: [net-next 00/13][pull request] 10GbE Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2018-02-26

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 5:59 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 10:07:43 -0800

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This series contains updates to ixgbe and ixgbevf only.

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Emil updates ixgbevf with several features and improvements done in
other drivers, starting with the handling of page addresses so that we
always refer to them using a void pointer.  Added a 'legacy-rx' flag to
allow switching between the old and new receive code paths.  Added
support for using 3K buggers in order 1 page.  Updated the driver to
ensure that calls to ixgbevf_open() are rtnl lock protected and improved
the error handling when setting up multiple queues.  Added support for
providing a buffer with head room and tail room to allow for shared
info, NET_SKB_PAD, and NET_IP_ALIGN, so that we can start using
build_skb to build frames instead of using memcpy() the headers.
Updated the logic of handling rings closer to ixgbe.  Consolidated the
receive paths to reduce duplication when we expand them in the future.
Added build_skb() support to ixgbevf.

This seems to suggest that XDP support for ixgbevf is coming next? :-)

So we are currently reviewing it as RFC on the intel-wired-lan mailing list:
https://lists.osuosl.org/pipermail/intel-wired-lan/Week-of-Mon-20180226/011810.html

I'll work with Tony to see if we can Cc netdev when he submits this
next to intel-wired-lan.

Thanks.

- Alex