From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shmulikr@broadcom.com
Cc: eilong@broadcom.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com,
lucy.liu@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2 0/4] dcbnl: Extending dcbnl to support non-host DCBX
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:52:53 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101231.105253.112601766.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1293726402.29378.91.camel@lb-tlvb-shmulik.il.broadcom.com>
From: "Shmulik Ravid" <shmulikr@broadcom.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:26:42 +0200
> DCBX is the exchange protocol for negotiating DCB parameters between a
> host and a switch. In some circumstances the DCBX negotiator can not
> reside in the host directly on top of the networking interface. For
> instance many converged network adapters support an embedded DCBX engine
> that performs the negotiation and configures the device with the
> negotiated parameters. Another example is virtual hosts and SRIOV
> virtual functions.
>
> The following patches extend the dcbnl netlink interface so in addition
> to its current semantics it offers a standard mechanism for managing
> such non-host DCBX engines. In this new mode 'set' operations are used
> to set the initial negotiation configuration and the 'get' operation are
> used to retrieve the negotiated results.
All applied, thanks.
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2010-12-30 16:26 [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2 0/4] dcbnl: Extending dcbnl to support non-host DCBX Shmulik Ravid
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