From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: Fix coexistence of FCoE and Flow Director in 82599 Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20090709.171720.66965956.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090709122944.962.54056.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, yi.zou@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60513 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750718AbZGJARR (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:17:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090709122944.962.54056.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 05:29:50 -0700 > From: Yi Zou > > Fix coexistence of Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and Flow Director (FDIR) > in 82599 and remove the disabling of FDIR when FCoE is enabled. > > Currently, FDIR is turned off when FCoE is enabled under the assumption that > FCoE is always enabled with DCB being turned on. However, FDIR does not have > to be turned off all the time when FCoE is enabled since FCoE can be enabled > without DCB being turned on, e.g., use link pause only. This patch makes sure > that when DCB is turned on or off, FDIR is turned on or off correspondingly; > and when FCoE is enabled, it does not disable FDIR, rather, it will have FDIR > set up properly so FCoE and FDIR can coexist regardless of DCB being on or off. > > Signed-off-by: Yi Zou > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.