From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next][PATCH v2 18/18] RDS: IB: add missing connection cache usage info
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2016 12:36:42 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161207.123642.1553217272033137094.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6159757e-c799-ee7f-0ee0-c9b3534a4237@oracle.com>
From: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2016 09:20:17 -0800
> Newer/Updated tools which can parse this extra info in needs newer
> or an updated kernel which supports and populates these fields.
>
> As mentioned, this particular option used only in verbose mode so
> am ok to drop this change if its still a concern.
What does the newer tool do on an older kernel if it doesn't see
the fields? Does it check the size of the structure given back
to it, and conditionally handle the older vs. the newer layout?
It must do this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-07 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-07 4:01 [net-next][PATCH v2 00/18] net: RDS updates Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 01/18] RDS: log the address on bind failure Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 02/18] RDS: mark few internal functions static to make sparse build happy Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 03/18] RDS: IB: include faddr in connection log Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 04/18] RDS: IB: make the transport retry count smallest Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 05/18] RDS: RDMA: fix the ib_map_mr_sg_zbva() argument Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 06/18] RDS: RDMA: start rdma listening after init Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 07/18] RDS: RDMA: return appropriate error on rdma map failures Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 08/18] RDS: IB: split the mr registration and invalidation path Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 09/18] RDS: RDMA: silence the use_once mr log flood Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 10/18] RDS: IB: track and log active side endpoint in connection Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 15:53 ` David Miller
2016-12-07 16:29 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 11/18] RDS: IB: add few useful cache stasts Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 12/18] RDS: IB: Add vector spreading for cqs Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 13/18] RDS: RDMA: Fix the composite message user notification Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 14/18] RDS: IB: fix panic due to handlers running post teardown Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 15/18] RDS: add stat for socket recv memory usage Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 16/18] RDS: make message size limit compliant with spec Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 17/18] RDS: add receive message trace used by application Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 4:01 ` [net-next][PATCH v2 18/18] RDS: IB: add missing connection cache usage info Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 15:55 ` David Miller
2016-12-07 16:44 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 17:05 ` David Miller
2016-12-07 17:20 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2016-12-07 17:36 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-12-07 20:42 ` Santosh Shilimkar
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