From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add support to FCoE offload through net_device (v2) Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:57:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090303.235725.140764281.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090227220034.4987.50755.stgit.yi.zou@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: yi.zou@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36128 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752853AbZCDH5l (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:57:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090227220034.4987.50755.stgit.yi.zou@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Yi Zou Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:06:32 -0800 > This is set of revised patches for adding offload support of > Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) offload support through net_device > for the Open-FCoE project maintained at http://www.open-fcoe.org. > > The original submission can be found at: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123507707821705&w=2 > > The included patches would add FCoE offload support through the net_device > struct as shown in the series of patches followed here. This is achieved > by adding nedev feature flags for FCoE FC CRC offload and large send offload > through gso. The large receive offload by direct data placement (ddp) is > achieved by the two function pointers to net_device_ops, to setup and release > ddp context, ndo_fcoe_ddp_setup and ndo_fcoe_ddp_done. One data member is > added to net_device strut, namely fcoe_ddp_xid, which inidates the maximum > exchange id allowed by LLD to perform ddp on the read I/O request. > > As the following patches touch both netdev and libfc/fcoe, and they are > applicable to the current tip at www.open-fcoe.org w/ patches available at: > http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&m=123576089125544&w=2 If they look alright, > I will rework them later to be directly applicable to net-next, where the > aforementioned fcoe/libfc fix patches are expected to be in kernel already > through scsi-fixes. I am fine with these changes, they look good.