From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl0-f67.google.com ([209.85.160.67]:32928 "EHLO mail-pl0-f67.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226AbeCMVN5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:13:57 -0400 Received: by mail-pl0-f67.google.com with SMTP id c11-v6so543772plo.0 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 14:13:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 15:13:55 -0600 From: Jason Gunthorpe To: David Ahern Cc: Leon Romanovsky , stephen@networkplumber.org, Steve Wise , netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 iproute2-next 0/6] cm_id, cq, mr, and pd resource tracking Message-ID: <20180313211355.GD21498@ziepe.ca> References: <0b9901d3ba15$1ac4a1d0$504de570$@opengridcomputing.com> <87cc06e1-0e54-12f7-a9b0-326e568c3d6f@gmail.com> <20180313083211.GB1080@mtr-leonro.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:45:12PM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > On 3/13/18 1:32 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:53:03AM -0700, David Ahern wrote: > >> On 3/12/18 8:16 AM, Steve Wise wrote: > >>> Hey all, > >>> > >>> The kernel side of this series has been merged for rdma-next [1]. Let me > >>> know if this iproute2 series can be merged, of if it needs more changes. > >>> > >> > >> The problem is that iproute2 headers are synced to kernel headers from > >> DaveM's tree (net-next mainly). I take it this series will not appear in > >> Dave's tree until after a merge through Linus' tree. Correct? > > > > David, > > > > Technically, you are right, and we would like to ask you for an extra tweak > > to the flow for the RDMAtool, because current scheme causes delays at least > > cycle. > > > > Every RDMAtool's patchset which requires changes to headers is always > > includes header patch, can you please accept those series and once you > > are bringing new net-next headers from Linus, simply overwrite all our > > headers? > > I did not follow the discussion back when this decision was made, so how > did rdma tool end up in iproute2? I do not need the overhead of > sometimes I sync the rdma header file and sometimes I don't. Could you pull the uapi headers from linux-next? That tree will have both netdev and rdma stuff merged together properly. Jason