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Jacob Keller 1082b360e3 ice: refactor ice_discover_caps to avoid need to retry
The ice_discover_caps function is used to read the device and function
capabilities, updating the hardware capabilities structures with
relevant data.

The exact number of capabilities returned by the hardware is unknown
ahead of time. The AdminQ command will report the total number of
capabilities in the return buffer.

The current implementation involves requesting capabilities once,
reading this returned size, and then re-requested with that size.

This isn't really necessary. The firmware interface has a maximum size
of ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN. Firmware can never return more than
ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN / sizeof(struct ice_aqc_list_caps_elem) capabilities.

Avoid the retry loop by simply allocating a buffer of size
ICE_AQ_MAX_BUF_LEN. This is significantly simpler than retrying. The
extra allocation isn't a big deal, as it will be released after we
finish parsing the capabilities.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
2020-07-23 14:16:02 -07:00
Documentation net: dccp: Add SIOCOUTQ IOCTL support (send buffer fill) 2020-07-22 17:00:37 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-07-22 12:35:33 -07:00
block block-5.8-2020-07-10 2020-07-10 09:55:46 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto net: make ->{get,set}sockopt in proto_ops optional 2020-07-19 18:16:41 -07:00
drivers ice: refactor ice_discover_caps to avoid need to retry 2020-07-23 14:16:02 -07:00
fs Merge branch 'usermode-driver-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace into bpf-next 2020-07-14 12:18:01 -07:00
include qed: introduce qed_chain_get_elem_used{,u32}() 2020-07-22 18:19:03 -07:00
init kbuild: fix CONFIG_CC_CAN_LINK(_STATIC) for cross-compilation with Clang 2020-07-02 00:57:45 +09:00
ipc mmap locking API: use coccinelle to convert mmap_sem rwsem call sites 2020-06-09 09:39:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: net: Use precomputed btf_id for bpf iterators 2020-07-21 13:26:26 -07:00
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net l2tp: cleanup kzalloc calls 2020-07-23 11:54:40 -07:00
samples samples/bpf, selftests/bpf: Use bpf_probe_read_kernel 2020-07-21 13:26:26 -07:00
scripts bpf: Introduce SK_LOOKUP program type with a dedicated attach point 2020-07-17 20:18:16 -07:00
security integrity/ima: switch to using __kernel_read 2020-07-08 08:27:57 +02:00
sound sound fixes for 5.8-rc5 2020-07-08 11:07:09 -07:00
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usr bpfilter: match bit size of bpfilter_umh to that of the kernel 2020-05-17 18:52:01 +09:00
virt kvm: use more precise cast and do not drop __user 2020-07-02 05:39:31 -04:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
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.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update email address for Gerald Schaefer 2020-07-10 15:06:49 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda 2020-05-25 18:59:59 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS wireless-drivers-next patches for v5.9 2020-07-20 17:52:50 -07:00
Makefile Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-07-13 18:04:05 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.