Re: [PATCH V5 net-next 06/11] net: hibmcge: Implement .ndo_start_xmit function

[Jijie Shao]

on 2024/8/29 9:41, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:14:50 +0800 Jijie Shao wrote:
> > @@ -111,6 +135,14 @@ static int hbg_init(struct hbg_priv *priv)
> >   	if (ret)
> >   		return ret;
> >   
> > +	ret = hbg_txrx_init(priv);
> > +	if (ret)
> > +		return ret;
> You allocate buffers on the probe path?
> The queues and all the memory will be sitting allocated but unused if
> admin does ip link set dev $eth0 down?

The network port has only one queue and
the TX queue depth is 64, RX queue depth is 127.
so it doesn't take up much memory.

Also, I plan to add the self_test feature in a future patch.
If I don't allocate buffers on the probe path,
I won't be able to do a loopback test if the network port goes down unexpectedly.

So, if there are no other constraints, I prefer to alloc buffer memory in probe path.

	Thanks,
	Jijie Shao