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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
To: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Cc: "Vishwanathapura,
	Niranjana" <niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com>,
	"Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@intel.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
	"linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dalessandro, Dennis" <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 02/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Bus driver
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:50:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161129165009.GA3167@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0B9B46@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 04:44:37PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > You are not making a subsystem. Don't overcomplicate things. A
> > multi-part device device can just directly link.
> 
> The VNIC may be usable over multiple generations of HFIs, but I
> don't know if that is the intent.

If Intel wants to build a HFI subystem within RDMA with multiple
drivers then sure, but they are not there yet, and we don't even know
what that could look like. So it is better to leave it simple for now.

Jason

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-18 22:42 [RFC 00/10] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found] ` <1479508938-63799-1-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 01/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) documentation Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 02/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Bus driver Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-19 19:04     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-21 21:30       ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-21 21:39         ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-21 23:26           ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]             ` <20161121232629.GA67988-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-21 23:31               ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                 ` <20161121233118.GA31132-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-22  1:53                   ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-22 17:04                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-11-22 19:49                       ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                         ` <20161122194918.GA69241-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-22 23:04                           ` Christoph Lameter
2016-11-23  0:53                             ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-23  0:06                         ` Andrew Lunn
     [not found]                       ` <20161122170407.GE3956-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-23  0:05                         ` ira.weiny
2016-11-23  0:49                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                             ` <20161123004932.GA13598-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-24  0:08                               ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                                 ` <20161124000825.GA73280-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-24 16:15                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                                     ` <20161124161545.GA20818-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-25  2:13                                       ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                                         ` <20161125021350.GA74946-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-25 19:05                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                                             ` <20161125190509.GB16504-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-29  6:31                                               ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                                                 ` <20161129063106.GB84990-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-29 16:19                                                   ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                                                     ` <20161129161950.GB742-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-29 16:44                                                       ` Hefty, Sean
2016-11-29 16:50                                                         ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
     [not found]                                                           ` <20161129165009.GA3167-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-01  7:39                                                             ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-29  6:29                                       ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                                         ` <20161129062938.GA84990-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-11-29 16:21                                           ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                                             ` <20161129162113.GC742-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-01  7:41                                               ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 03/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) netdev driver Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 04/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management (EM) structure definitions Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 07/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) interface Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 08/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) driver Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42   ` [RFC 10/10] IB/hfi1: VNIC SDMA support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42 ` [RFC 05/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC statistics support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42 ` [RFC 06/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC MAC table support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-11-18 22:42 ` [RFC 09/10] IB/hfi1: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana

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