From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, bphilips@novell.com,
yi.zou@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: add a refcnt when turning on/off FCoE offload capability
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 03:56:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021.035612.02273208.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101021090027.12059.44871.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 02:00:30 -0700
> From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
>
> The FCoE offload is enabled/disabled per adapter, but upper FCoE protocol
> stack could have multiple FCoE instances created on the same physical network
> interface, e.g., FCoE on multiple VLAN interfaces on the same physical
> network interface. In this case we want to turn on FCoE offload at the first
> request from ndo_fcoe_enable() but only turn off FCoE offload at the very last
> call to ndo_fcoe_disable(). This is fixed by adding a refcnt in the per adapter
> FCoE structure and tear down FCoE offload when refcnt decrements to zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
> Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-21 8:59 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: update copyright info Jeff Kirsher
2010-10-21 9:00 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: fix stats handling Jeff Kirsher
2010-10-21 10:56 ` David Miller
2010-10-21 9:00 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] ixgbe: add a refcnt when turning on/off FCoE offload capability Jeff Kirsher
2010-10-21 10:56 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-21 10:55 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3] ixgbe: update copyright info David Miller
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