Jakub Kicinski <[email protected]> writes:

> On Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:13:12 +0100 Björn Töpel wrote:
>> Some NICs (e.g. bnxt) change their RSS indirection table size based on
>> the queue count, because the hardware table is a shared resource. The
>> ethtool core locks ctx->indir_size at context creation, so drivers
>> have to reject channel changes when RSS contexts exist.
>> 
>> This series adds resize helpers and wires them up in bnxt.
>
> Sorry Bjorn, I was typing the explanation below and I realized that 
> we may be violating user intent. We should already record the user_size
> from rss_set_prep_indir() as part of the context (and presumably some
> netdev state for the main context?) and don't allow shrinking the
> context below that mark..

Don't be sorry! Good catch, and glad you caught it now rather than after
it landed.

I'll respin with user_size tracked in the context (and netdev state for
context 0) as a lower bound, so resize never folds below the size the
user explicitly configured.

WDYT?


Björn

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