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From: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
To: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>,
	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>,
	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>,
	Yuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>,
	"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ariel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>,
	Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>,
	linux-pci <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New commands to configure IOV features
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 16:08:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <505CC930.5070807@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAE9FiQW4vY3SwAt1TGhSa=bcmKnzxS96b9HGoU5_CDb3FRvGVA@mail.gmail.com>

On 09/21/2012 03:49 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Don Dutile<ddutile@redhat.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ok, something like attached patches?
>>>
>>> ixgbe change need more cleanup from ixgbe guys.
>>>
>> yuk, no.
>> I have a set of patches almost done.
>
> good. includes update to those network drivers?
>
>> It provides 3 sysfs files (enable, disable, num_max_vfs);
>> callbacks for enable&  disable.
>
> why using three? only pass max_vfs should be enough...
>
> aka pass 0 mean disabling, pass other value mean enabling.
>
could do that.  but I wouldn't use 'max_vfs'; I would recommend
'num_vfs', as max implies, er, um, the maximum, and what one
wants is to be able to enable a number from 1->max_vfs.
'max_vfs' will be provided by another file.

>>
>> i'm tied up until Monday on RHEL6, then I'll switch gears&  post a set of
>> patches.
>
> so that is your employer 'sinternal policy? for RHEL 6 kernel first,
> then upstream kernel?
No, I have deadlines for RHEL6 for *other work* until Monday.  After that,
I can re-focus on upstream work.  Some of us actually have other work than
just upstream.... crazy talk, I know! ;-)

> thought RH only accept backporting only patches get into upstream already.
>
yup. 'upstream first' is the rule at RH before it gets into a RHEL release...
and sometimes that isn't sufficient!

Have a beer, enjoy the weekend, posting forthcoming next week!

> -Yinghai

  reply	other threads:[~2012-09-21 20:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07 11:17 New commands to configure IOV features Yuval Mintz
2012-05-07 15:16 ` Greg Rose
2012-06-26 12:21   ` Yuval Mintz
2012-06-26 16:13     ` Alexander Duyck
2012-06-26 17:19     ` Greg Rose
2012-07-01 11:09       ` Yuval Mintz
2012-07-09 18:39       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-09 21:13         ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-16  9:19           ` Yuval Mintz
2012-07-17 19:29             ` Don Dutile
2012-07-17 21:08               ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-17 21:11                 ` David Miller
2012-07-20 15:27                   ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-20 15:56                     ` Don Dutile
2012-07-20 17:42                       ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 19:29                         ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-20 20:01                           ` Ben Hutchings
2012-07-20 20:15                             ` Don Dutile
2012-07-20 23:42                             ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-21  0:52                               ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-07-23 14:03                               ` Don Dutile
2012-07-23 15:09                                 ` Chris Friesen
2012-07-23 17:06                                   ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-07-23 18:36                                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2012-07-23 18:40                                     ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-09-19 11:07                                       ` Yuval Mintz
2012-09-19 15:53                                         ` Greg Rose
2012-09-19 19:44                                           ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-19 22:17                                             ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-19 22:46                                               ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-20  0:19                                                 ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-20  1:23                                                   ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-20  2:27                                                     ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-20  3:08                                                       ` Subhendu Ghosh
2012-09-20 15:39                                                     ` Rose, Gregory V
2012-09-21  5:50                                                       ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 17:35                                                         ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-21 19:23                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 18:06                                                         ` Don Dutile
2012-09-21 19:49                                                           ` Yinghai Lu
2012-09-21 20:08                                                             ` Don Dutile [this message]
2012-09-23 15:49                                                               ` Yuval Mintz
2012-09-24 17:37                                                                 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-30  6:39                                                               ` Yuval Mintz
2012-10-01 14:12                                                                 ` Don Dutile
2012-09-19 17:49                                         ` David Miller
2012-07-23 16:37                                 ` Rose, Gregory V

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