From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com
Cc: jeff@garzik.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2008 07:43:24 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080605.074324.38999631.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D5C1322C3E673F459512FB59E0DDC32905348FD4@orsmsx414.amr.corp.intel.com>
From: "Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:23:00 -0700
> I'm not sure I follow this. DCB is a scheduling policy, but that
> scheduling policy is in the hardware. The configuration interface,
> which is what this is, happens out of band of any scheduling policies in
> the kernel. It's very analogous to the wireless configuration layer for
> mac80211 that uses generic netlink.
And I'm saying we should have a equivalent software scheduler in
the kernel that can implement this if the hardware offloaded version
isn't present.
It overlaps existing functionality to a certain extent, and there is
no real reason for that overlap to exist. The question is which
(the existing facilities or the new one) subsumes which.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-05 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 14:13 [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] [NET-NEXT]: Add DCB netlink interface definition PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-28 9:41 ` Thomas Graf
2008-05-28 16:03 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-28 22:37 ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-01 12:16 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-05 13:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-09 22:11 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-10 7:14 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: Add Data Center Bridging hardware initialization code PJ Waskiewicz
2008-05-27 14:13 ` [PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: Enable Data Center Bridging (DCB) support PJ Waskiewicz
2008-06-04 18:44 ` [PATCH] NET: DCB generic netlink interface David Miller
2008-06-05 6:23 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-05 14:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2008-06-05 20:29 ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-10 19:55 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-10 20:07 ` David Miller
2008-06-11 17:51 ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-11 17:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 21:28 ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-12 10:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-11 18:28 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-06-11 21:26 ` Thomas Graf
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