Patch "ixgbe: add mask for 64 RSS queues" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ixgbe: add mask for 64 RSS queues

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ixgbe-add-mask-for-64-rss-queues.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 14:03:03 -0700
Subject: ixgbe: add mask for 64 RSS queues

From: Emil Tantilov <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 2bf1a87b903bd81b1448a1cef73de59fb6c4d340 ]

The indirection table was reported incorrectly for X550 and newer where we can support up to 64 RSS queues.

Reported-by Krishneil Singh <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_lib.c |    8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ static void ixgbe_cache_ring_register(st
 	ixgbe_cache_ring_rss(adapter);
 }
 
+#define IXGBE_RSS_64Q_MASK	0x3F
 #define IXGBE_RSS_16Q_MASK	0xF
 #define IXGBE_RSS_8Q_MASK	0x7
 #define IXGBE_RSS_4Q_MASK	0x3

@@ -604,6 +605,7 @@ static bool ixgbe_set_sriov_queues(struc
  **/
 static bool ixgbe_set_rss_queues(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
 {
+	struct ixgbe_hw *hw = &adapter->hw;
 	struct ixgbe_ring_feature *f;
 	u16 rss_i;
 

@@ -612,7 +614,11 @@ static bool ixgbe_set_rss_queues(struct
 	rss_i = f->limit;
 
 	f->indices = rss_i;
-	f->mask = IXGBE_RSS_16Q_MASK;
+
+	if (hw->mac.type < ixgbe_mac_X550)
+		f->mask = IXGBE_RSS_16Q_MASK;
+	else
+		f->mask = IXGBE_RSS_64Q_MASK;
 
 	/* disable ATR by default, it will be configured below */
 	adapter->flags &= ~IXGBE_FLAG_FDIR_HASH_CAPABLE;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/ixgbe-handle-close-suspend-race-with-netif_device_detach-present.patch queue-4.9/ixgbe-do-not-disable-fec-from-the-driver.patch queue-4.9/ixgbe-fix-aer-error-handling.patch queue-4.9/ixgbe-add-mask-for-64-rss-queues.patch