Re: [PATCH net-next v5 00/11] ethtool: Add support for frame preemption

Vladimir Oltean
2022-05-23T23:33:45Z

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 12:52:38PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> My understanding is that DCBNL is not in ethtool is that it was built
> primarily for converged Ethernet. ethtool being a netdev thing it's
> largely confined to coarse interface configuration in such
> environments, they certainly don't use TC to control RDMA queues.
>
> To put it differently DCBNL separates RoCE and storage queues from
> netdev queues (latter being lossy). It's Conway's law at work.

I had to look up Conway's law, now I get it. Beautiful euphemism, thank you.