linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon
Shay Agroskin ce74496a15 net: ena: use constant value for net_device allocation
The patch changes the maximum number of RX/TX queues it advertises to
the kernel (via alloc_etherdev_mq()) from a value received from the
device to a constant value which is the minimum between 128 and the
number of CPUs in the system.

By allocating the net_device struct with a constant number of queues,
the driver is able to allocate it at a much earlier stage, before
calling any ena_com functions. This would allow to make all log prints
in ena_com to use netdev_* log functions instead or current pr_* ones.

Note:
netdev_* prints in ena_com functions that are called before
net_device registration in ena_probe() might print messages that are
a bit ugly (with strings like "(unnamed net_device) (uninitialized)").
However we decided to use netdev_* prints in these functions anyway,
for the sake of getting better messages later, when ena_com functions
are called after ena_probe() form other parts of the driver.
See discussion about this decision in [1].

[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg353590.html

Signed-off-by: Shay Agroskin <shayagr@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-12-09 15:26:40 -08:00
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ena net: ena: use constant value for net_device allocation 2020-12-09 15:26:40 -08:00
Kconfig treewide: replace '---help---' in Kconfig files with 'help' 2020-06-14 01:57:21 +09:00
Makefile treewide: Add SPDX license identifier - Makefile/Kconfig 2019-05-21 10:50:46 +02:00