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
next prev parent 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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