Re: net: thunder: change q_len's type to handle max ring size

[Dean Nelson]

On 02/08/2018 10:29 PM, Sunil Kovvuri wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 9, 2018 at 3:27 AM, Dean Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 02/08/2018 02:34 PM, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Dean Nelson <dnelson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:
> > >
> > > > The Cavium thunder nicvf driver supports rx/tx rings of up to 65536
> > > > entries per.
 ...
> > > Another way to solve this could have been to encode that length
> > > as "length - 1"
> >
> >
> > True. I had pondered that, but felt that since changing q_len's type
> > didn't add any length to the structure and that it was less impactful
> > from a number-of-lines of code changed perspective, I'd opt for this
> > route.
> >
> > Cavium, if you'd prefer this goes the route that Dave just mentioned,
> > please let me know and I can make a new patch against what's been
> > applied?
>
> Thanks for fixing this and i think the current patch is fine.

You're welcome. And thanks for responding. So I'll leave things as they
are.