Re: [PATCH net-next v11 0/9] net: macb: implement context swapping

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Hello:

This series was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:16:38 +0200 you wrote:
> MACB has a pretty primitive approach to buffer management. They are all
> stored in `struct macb *bp`. On operations that require buffer realloc
> (set_ringparam & change_mtu at the moment), the only option is to close
> the interface, change our global state and re-open the interface.
> 
> Two issues:
> - It doesn't fly on memory pressured systems; we free our precious
>   buffers and don't manage to reallocate fully, meaning our machine
>   just lost its network access.
> - Anecdotally, it is pretty slow because it implies a full PHY reinit.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next,v11,1/9] net: macb: close race between NAPI polls & ndo_stop
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ba16ad3c8769
  - [net-next,v11,2/9] net: macb: introduce macb_context struct for buffer management
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/435345c65180
  - [net-next,v11,3/9] net: macb: avoid macb_init_rx_buffer_size() modifying state
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/b8ab596dabde
  - [net-next,v11,4/9] net: macb: make `struct macb` subset reachable from macb_context struct
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/9bfec20d011f
  - [net-next,v11,5/9] net: macb: change caps helpers signatures
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/dd1aaefee4f6
  - [net-next,v11,6/9] net: macb: change function signatures to take contexts
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/ed16494c2c50
  - [net-next,v11,7/9] net: macb: introduce macb_context_alloc() helper
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/88e99640fcd0
  - [net-next,v11,8/9] net: macb: use context swapping in .set_ringparam()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/dcc3288b9433
  - [net-next,v11,9/9] net: macb: use context swapping in .ndo_change_mtu()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/a98375924d64

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