From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 14:33:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120803.143315.151094375569109262.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1343840975-3252-10-git-send-email-ogerlitz@mellanox.com> <87boitz044.fsf@xmission.com> <501C3527.6060809@mellanox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roland@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, sean.hefty@intel.com, erezsh@mellanox.co.il To: ali@mellanox.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40761 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752377Ab2HCVdQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2012 17:33:16 -0400 In-Reply-To: <501C3527.6060809@mellanox.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ali Ayoub Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 13:31:35 -0700 > With eIPoIB architecture, the VM sees standard Ethernet emulator, > allowing the administrator to enslave eIPoIB PIF to the vSwitch/vBridge > as if it was standard Ethernet. Other approaches that exposes IB QP to > the VM (with w/o bypassing the kernel) won't be possible with the > current emulators and management tools. So then fix the emulators and management tools to handle IB instead of adding this bogus new protocol? This new protocol seems to exist only because you don't want to have to enhance the emulators and tools, and I'm sorry that isn't a valid reason to do something like this.