From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>, "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Dept-Eng DPDK Dev <Dept-EngDPDKDev@qlogic.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] net/qede: refactor filtering code
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 17:53:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466b1cf9-78b0-4449-68a0-f5a0e20dbb5a@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D4741EDB.C012D%Harish.Patil@cavium.com>
On 12/12/2016 5:36 PM, Harish Patil wrote:
>
>> On 12/3/2016 2:43 AM, Harish Patil wrote:
>>> The filter_config in qed_eth_ops_pass is a wrapper call driving all the
>>> filtering configuration. This requires defining multiple structures and
>>> passing different function arguments for each filter type which is
>>> unnecessary. So as part of this refactoring we remove filter_config from
>>> qed_eth_ops_pass and invoke base apis directly. Another change is to
>>> use a singly list for unicast/multicast macs and thereby prevent
>>> duplicate
>>
>> singly linked list?
>
> Yes. Two lists to track unicast and multicast mac entries:
> + SLIST_HEAD(mc_list_head, qede_mcast_entry) mc_list_head;
>
> + SLIST_HEAD(uc_list_head, qede_ucast_entry) uc_list_head;
>
>
>
>>
>>> entries.
>>>
>>> This change is primarily intended to support future tunneling support
>>> which makes use of existing L2 filtering/classifications.
>>>
>>> Fixes: 2ea6f76a ("qede: add core driver")
>>
>> What is fixed in this patch, isn't it a refactor?
>
> The fix part is to make use of the newly added lists and prevent duplicate
> mac filters.
> Before that there were no checks. Other than that its refactoring to
> mainly invoke direct base APIs.
So this is not fixing any defect in driver, so I believe Fixes tag can
be removed. This tag is mainly useful to pick commits for stable trees.
>
>>
>> btw, all Fixes formats are wrong in the patchset, can you please use the
>> git alias provided:
>> http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/patches.html#commit-messages-body
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Harish Patil <harish.patil@qlogic.com>
>>> ---
>> <...>
>>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-12 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-03 2:43 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] net/qede: reduce noise in debug logs Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/7] net/qede: refactor filtering code Harish Patil
2016-12-08 16:45 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-12 17:36 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-12 17:53 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2016-12-20 23:12 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/7] net/qede: add slowpath support for VXLAN tunneling Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/7] net/qede: add fastpath " Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/7] net/qede: fix RSS related issue Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 6/7] net/qede: fix maximum VF count to 0 Harish Patil
2016-12-08 16:45 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-12 17:47 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-12 18:13 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-19 13:38 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-12-20 23:15 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-03 2:43 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 7/7] net/qede: restrict maximum queues for PF/VF Harish Patil
2016-12-08 16:45 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-12 19:29 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-12 20:10 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-20 23:16 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-08 16:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] net/qede: reduce noise in debug logs Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-12 17:15 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-12 17:50 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-20 22:02 ` Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 " Harish Patil
2016-12-23 15:14 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-23 15:25 ` Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/7] net/qede: fix filtering code Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/7] net/qede: add slowpath support for VXLAN tunneling Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/7] net/qede: add fastpath " Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 5/7] net/qede: fix RSS related issue Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 6/7] net/qede: fix reporting of SR-IOV PF driver as disabled Harish Patil
2016-12-23 0:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 7/7] net/qede: restrict maximum queues for PF/VF Harish Patil
2016-12-08 16:48 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/7] net/qede: reduce noise in debug logs Ferruh Yigit
2016-12-20 23:29 ` Mody, Rasesh
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