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Merge: CNB96: netdev_features: start cleaning netdev_features_t up
MR: https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/kernel/centos-stream-9/-/merge_requests/5362
JIRA: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-59091
Explanation from the upstream cover letter by Alexander Lobakin:
> NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT is currently 64, which means we can't add any new
> features as netdev_features_t is u64.
> As per several discussions, instead of converting netdev_features_t to
> a bitmap, which would mean A LOT of changes, we can try cleaning up
> netdev feature bits.
> There's a bunch of bits which don't really mean features, rather device
> attributes/properties that can't be changed via Ethtool in any of the
> drivers. Such attributes can be moved to netdev private flags without
> losing any functionality.
>
> Start converting some read-only netdev features to private flags from
> the ones that are most obvious, like lockless Tx, inability to change
> network namespace etc. I was able to reduce NETDEV_FEATURE_COUNT from
> 64 to 60, which mean 4 free slots for new features. There are obviously
> more read-only features to convert, such as highDMA, "challenged VLAN",
> HSR (4 bits) - this will be done in subsequent series.
> Please note that netdev features are not uAPI/ABI by any means. Ethtool
> passes their names and bits to the userspace separately and there are no
> hardcoded names/bits in the userspace, so that new Ethtool could work
> on older kernels and vice versa. Even shell scripts won't most likely
> break since the removed bits were always read-only, meaning nobody would
> try touching them from a script.
I proposed a Release Note Text in the Jira to document that "tx-lockless", "netns-local", "fcoe-mtu" will no longer appear in "ethtool -k".
Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com>
Approved-by: José Ignacio Tornos Martínez <jtornosm@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Antoine Tenart <atenart@redhat.com>
Approved-by: Eric Chanudet <echanude@redhat.com>
Approved-by: CKI KWF Bot <cki-ci-bot+kwf-gitlab-com@redhat.com>
Merged-by: Rado Vrbovsky <rvrbovsk@redhat.com>
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