From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Cc: "'davem@davemloft.net'" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"'netdev@vger.kernel.org'" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Dmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>,
Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable LRO on FCoE or iSCSI boot device
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:06:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E985DE8.3090308@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C27F8246C663564A84BB7AB34397724266D2018303@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com>
On 10/14/2011 08:53 AM, Michael Chan wrote:
> Rick Jones wrote:
>
>> Is this perhaps saying that a bnx2x-driven device being used for
>> FCoE or iSCSI boot must not permit *any* run-time configuration
>> change which leads to a NIC reset?
>>
>
> That is right. Unless you have a multipath configuration with multiple
> ports, then you can reset one port at a time.
So, should there also be a "cnic_boot_device" check in many of the
"capital letter" ethtool paths?
rick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-14 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-14 3:38 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable LRO on FCoE or iSCSI boot device Michael Chan
2011-10-14 15:31 ` Rick Jones
2011-10-14 15:53 ` Michael Chan
2011-10-14 16:06 ` Rick Jones [this message]
2011-10-14 16:15 ` Michael Chan
2011-10-14 20:17 ` John Fastabend
2011-10-14 20:59 ` Michael Chan
2011-10-19 20:06 ` David Miller
2011-10-19 20:12 ` Michael Chan
2011-10-19 20:47 ` David Miller
2011-10-19 20:53 ` John Fastabend
2011-10-19 21:03 ` David Miller
2011-10-27 23:30 ` Michael Chan
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2012-02-13 11:20 Vasily Averin
2012-02-13 19:09 ` Michael Chan
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