nfp: improve link modes reading process
authorYinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>
Tue, 9 May 2023 07:58:17 +0000 (09:58 +0200)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Wed, 10 May 2023 02:40:28 +0000 (19:40 -0700)
commita731a43e8669a0b430c79a3e38890c27a5847a76
tree3b13e66fd36f1d26342ae1eb2fe0075784f16aae
parent94e86ef1b801d213dfb8543633dec86abb1a457d
nfp: improve link modes reading process

Avoid reading link modes from management firmware every time when
`ethtool_get_link_ksettings` is called, only communicate with
management firmware when necessary like we do for eth_table info.

This change can ease the situation that when large number of vlan
sub-interfaces are created and their information is requested by
some monitoring process like PCP [1] through ethool ioctl frequently.

[1] https://pcp.io

Signed-off-by: Yinjun Zhang <yinjun.zhang@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>
Signed-off-by: Louis Peens <louis.peens@corigine.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230509075817.10566-1-louis.peens@corigine.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfp_net_ethtool.c
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp.h
drivers/net/ethernet/netronome/nfp/nfpcore/nfp_nsp_eth.c