Re: [net-next v2 00/11][pull request] Intel Wired LAN Driver Updates 2014-11-18

[Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>]

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On Tue, 2014-11-18 at 13:38 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 01:25:20 -0800
> 
> > This series contains updates to i40e only.
> > 
> > Shannon provides a patch to clean up the driver to only warn once that
> > PTP is not supported when linked at 100Mbps.
> > 
> > Mitch provides a fix for i40e where the VF interrupt processing takes
> > a long time and it is possible that we could lose a VFLR event if it
> > happens while processing a VFLR on another VF.  To correct this situation,
> > we enable the VFLR interrupt cause before we begin processing any pending
> > resets.
> > 
> > Neerav provides several patches to update DCB support in i40e.  When
> > there are DCB configuration changes based on DCBx, the firmware suspends
> > the port's Tx and generates an event to the PF.  The PF is then
> > responsible to reconfigure the PF VSIs and switching topology as per the
> > updated DCB configuration and then resume the port's Tx by calling the
> > "Resume Port Tx" AQ command, so add this call to the flow that handles
> > DCB re-configuration in the PF.  Allow the driver to query and use DCB
> > configuration from firmware when firmware DCBx agent is in CEE mode.
> > Add a check whether LLDP Agent's default AdminStatus is enabled or
> > disabled on a given port, and sets DCBx status to disabled if the
> > status is disabled.  Fix an issue when the port TC configuration
> > changes as a result of DCBx and the driver modifies the enabled TCs for
> > the VEBs it manages but does not update the enabled_tc value that 
> > was cached on a per VEB basis.  Add a new PF state so that if a port's
> > Tx is in suspended state the Tx queue disable flow would just put the
> > request for the queue to be disabled and return without waiting for the
> > queue to be actually disabled.  Allows the driver to enable/disable
> > the XPS based on the number of TCs being enabled for the given VSI.
> 
> Pulled, thanks Jeff.
> 
> > v2: Dropped patch "i40e: Handle a single mss packet with more than 8 frags"
> >     while we rework the patch after we test a bit more based on feedback from 
> >     Eric Dumazet.
> 
> Since, as Eric showed, it's easy to hang the card with a simple
> netperf command line due to this issue, you might want to consider
> sending that fix to 'net' instead.

Got it, I have ear marked the revised patch for 'net'.

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