Re: [PATCH v2 00/21] net: thunderx: Support for newer chips and miscellaneous patches

[David Miller]

From: sunil.kovvuri@xxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 16:51:23 +0530

> This patch series adds support for VNIC on 81xx and 83xx SOCs.
> 81xx/83xx is different from 88xx in terms of capabilities and new type
> of interfaces supported (eg: QSGMII, RGMII) and have DLMs instead of
> QLMs which allows single BGX to have interfaces of different LMAC types.
> 
> Also included some patches which are common for all 88xx/81xx/83xx
> SOCs like using netdev's name while registering irqs, reset receive
> queue stats and some changes to use standard API for split buffer Rx
> packets, generating RSS key e.t.c
> 
> PS: Most of the patches were submitted earlier under different series but
> for some reason were not picked up by patchwork. Since new patches have been
> added in the meantime, resubmitting all as a new patchset.
> 
> Changes from v1:
> - Incorporated Yuval Mintz's suggestion to use generic API to set minimum
>   queue count i.e by using netif_get_num_default_rss_queues().
> - Resolved a compilation issue reported by test robot while compiling
>   patch 'Add support for 16 LMACs of 83xx'

Series applied.