From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20101231.105253.112601766.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1293726402.29378.91.camel@lb-tlvb-shmulik.il.broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: eilong@broadcom.com, john.r.fastabend@intel.com, lucy.liu@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shmulikr@broadcom.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:34201 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751622Ab0LaSwX (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Dec 2010 13:52:23 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1293726402.29378.91.camel@lb-tlvb-shmulik.il.broadcom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: "Shmulik Ravid" 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.