From: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishu...@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2017 15:24:45 +0800

> In be_tx_compl_process, frag_index declared as u32, so it's better to
> declare last_index as u32 also.
> 
> CC: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khapa...@broadcom.com>
> Fixes: b0fd2eb28bd4 ("be2net: Declare some u16 fields as u32 to improve
> performance")
> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishu...@cmss.chinamobile.com>

That is not a legitimate reason for making this change.

> @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ struct be_tx_stats {
>  /* Structure to hold some data of interest obtained from a TX CQE */
>  struct be_tx_compl_info {
>       u8 status;              /* Completion status */
> -     u16 end_index;          /* Completed TXQ Index */
> +     u32 end_index;          /* Completed TXQ Index */
>  };
>  
>  struct be_tx_obj {

The ->end_index comes solely from:

        txcp->end_index = GET_TX_COMPL_BITS(wrb_index, compl);

Which is precisely a 16-bit value.

I'm not applying this, sorry.

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