From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gavin Shan Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 00/10] NCSI Support Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:24:25 +1000 Message-ID: <20160704002425.GA5153@gwshan> References: <1467523953-18998-1-git-send-email-gwshan@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1467586171.7422.104.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Reply-To: Gavin Shan Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Or Gerlitz , Gavin Shan , Linux Netdev List , David Miller , joel@jms.id.au, weixue@trustnetic.com, yuvali@mellanox.com To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Return-path: Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:6895 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932182AbcGDAYe (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jul 2016 20:24:34 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098419.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u640JJVT141149 for ; Sun, 3 Jul 2016 20:24:33 -0400 Received: from e23smtp09.au.ibm.com (e23smtp09.au.ibm.com [202.81.31.142]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 23x6hw5g81-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 03 Jul 2016 20:24:33 -0400 Received: from localhost by e23smtp09.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:24:30 +1000 Received: from d23relay06.au.ibm.com (d23relay06.au.ibm.com [9.185.63.219]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64FF62BB0057 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:24:27 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay06.au.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u640ORRN7274910 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:24:27 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u640OQSP020326 for ; Mon, 4 Jul 2016 10:24:27 +1000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1467586171.7422.104.camel@kernel.crashing.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Jul 04, 2016 at 08:49:31AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >On Mon, 2016-07-04 at 01:03 +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> FWIW, talking to a colleague, he made a comment that some of the text >> above is wrong: >> >> AENs are sent from NIC to BMC. Not from Host to BMC. > >Just a typo in the commit message thankfully ;-) > Yeah, the AENs are sent from NIC to BMC and the code follows it. The code is tested on IBM's openPower server where a BMC (ARM system) and host ( Power system and NIC) are included. So the host, the far end and NIC can be regarded as equivalents. >> The traffic between a BMC and a NIC is over RBT if it is formatted as >> NC-SI packets. This is not over network traffic.... > It's correct. The figure included in the commit log might give the illusion that NCSI packets are sent over network traffic. Thanks, Gavin