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The ice driver needs to write the Tx and Rx queue context when programming
Tx and Rx queues. This is currently done using some bespoke custom logic
via the ice_set_ctx() and its helper functions, along with bit position
definitions in the ice_tlan_ctx_info and ice_rlan_ctx_info structures.
This logic does work, but is problematic for several reasons:
1) ice_set_ctx requires a helper function for each byte size being packed,
as it uses a separate function to pack u8, u16, u32, and u64 fields.
This requires 4 functions which contain near-duplicate logic with the
types changed out.
2) The logic in the ice_pack_ctx_word, ice_pack_ctx_dword, and
ice_pack_ctx_qword does not handle values which straddle alignment
boundaries very well. This requires that several fields in the
ice_tlan_ctx_info and ice_rlan_ctx_info be a size larger than their bit
size should require.
3) Future support for live migration will require adding unpacking
functions to take the packed hardware context and unpack it into the
ice_rlan_ctx and ice_tlan_ctx structures. Implementing this would
require implementing ice_get_ctx, and its associated helper functions,
which essentially doubles the amount of code required.
The Linux kernel has had a packing library that can handle this logic since
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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 reStructuredText 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.