[PATCH net-next v2 11/13] net: mana: keep a user-configured RSS table across a queue rebuild
From: Long Li
Date: Tue Aug 11 2026 - 02:54:03 EST
mana_rss_table_init() overwrites the indirection table with the driver
default every time the queues are rebuilt. Both rebuild paths do it:
mana_alloc_qset() for the ethtool/MTU/XDP queue-set swap, and
mana_alloc_queues() for ndo_open and for the TX-timeout reset.
A table the user installed with "ethtool -X" is therefore lost by
operations that have nothing to do with RSS. Resizing the rings, changing
the MTU, toggling a private flag, attaching an XDP program, or simply
taking the port down and up again all silently reset the steering:
# ethtool -X ens1 equal 1 # everything to queue 0
# ethtool -G ens1 rx 1024
# ethtool -x ens1 # back to 0..15, silently
The entries are queue indices, so they stay meaningful as long as the
queue count does not change, and mana_config_rss() already maps them onto
whichever RX objects the new set has. Carry the table over instead of
regenerating it.
Only a user-configured table is preserved, which netif_is_rxfh_configured()
reports: a driver-generated table must still be rebuilt so that it spreads
over all the queues of the new set. ethtool_check_max_channel() refuses a
channel-count reduction that would leave a user table pointing past the
last queue, so the entries are in range by construction; the bounds check
is a safety net for the rebuild paths that do not come from ethtool, and
reports the table as lost rather than steering to a queue that is gone.
Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c | 50 ++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 48 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
index 0d87440fbfbee7ac5729945d101eaa0c37745fbe..4cab3f658f2487671d26243d4e91f834580b3c5c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/microsoft/mana/mana_en.c
@@ -3545,6 +3545,38 @@ static void mana_rss_table_init(struct mana_port_context *apc)
ethtool_rxfh_indir_default(i, apc->num_queues);
}
+/* Decide whether @apc's indirection table can be carried over to a queue set
+ * with @num_queues queues, instead of being rebuilt from the driver default.
+ *
+ * Only a table the user installed with "ethtool -X" is worth preserving: a
+ * driver-generated one has to be rebuilt so that it spreads over all the
+ * queues the new set actually has.
+ *
+ * ethtool_check_max_channel() already refuses a channel-count reduction that
+ * would leave a user-configured table pointing past the last queue, so the
+ * bounds check below is only a safety net for the rebuild paths that do not
+ * originate from ethtool. If it ever trips, the table cannot be honoured for
+ * the new queue count, so tell the core the user's table is gone rather than
+ * silently steering to queues that no longer exist.
+ */
+static bool mana_rss_table_keep(struct mana_port_context *apc,
+ unsigned int num_queues)
+{
+ u32 i;
+
+ if (!netif_is_rxfh_configured(apc->ndev))
+ return false;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < apc->indir_table_sz; i++) {
+ if (apc->indir_table[i] >= num_queues) {
+ ethtool_rxfh_indir_lost(apc->ndev);
+ return false;
+ }
+ }
+
+ return true;
+}
+
int mana_disable_vport_rx(struct mana_port_context *apc)
{
return mana_cfg_vport_steering(apc, TRI_STATE_FALSE, false, false,
@@ -3860,7 +3892,12 @@ int mana_alloc_queues(struct net_device *ndev)
goto destroy_rxq;
}
- mana_rss_table_init(apc);
+ /* Keep a user-configured RSS table across a rebuild; the entries are
+ * queue indices, so they stay meaningful as long as the queue count
+ * is unchanged. Only a driver-generated table is regenerated here.
+ */
+ if (!mana_rss_table_keep(apc, apc->num_queues))
+ mana_rss_table_init(apc);
err = mana_config_rss(apc, TRI_STATE_TRUE, true, true);
if (err) {
@@ -4317,7 +4354,16 @@ int mana_alloc_qset(struct mana_port_context *apc,
if (err)
goto cleanup_rxq;
- mana_rss_table_init(scratch);
+ /* Carry a user-configured RSS table over to the new set. The entries
+ * are queue indices, so mana_config_rss() in mana_publish_qset() maps
+ * them onto the new set's RX objects. A driver-generated table is
+ * rebuilt instead, so it covers every queue of the new set.
+ */
+ if (mana_rss_table_keep(apc, num_queues))
+ memcpy(scratch->indir_table, apc->indir_table,
+ apc->indir_table_sz * sizeof(*apc->indir_table));
+ else
+ mana_rss_table_init(scratch);
mana_qset_snapshot(scratch, out);
return 0;
--
2.43.0