Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-22 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 16:18 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 06:03:19PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: AFAIK, capturing provided tags is considered best practice as a way to recognize and retain contributors. Agreed. I'll double check them tomorrow. These are two I

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-22 Thread Roland Dreier
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: New items since the last push: Jason's fix to the CMA for IPv4/IPv6 canonization Hariprasad's series to iw_cxgb4 Tatyana's and Steve's series for iWARP portmapper address resolution I just sent the previous batch, since

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-22 Thread Doug Ledford
On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 10:10 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:43 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: New items since the last push: Jason's fix to the CMA for IPv4/IPv6 canonization Hariprasad's series to iw_cxgb4 Tatyana's and Steve's series for iWARP

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-17 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 15:37 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:26:47AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Wed,

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-17 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like Roland isn't around to carry the rdma pull request for 4.1 ... Why do you ignore my emails (I see no reply to

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-17 Thread Roland Dreier
On Apr 11, 2015 12:28 PM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: If taking off the maintainer hat would get you some free/spare cycles, maybe you could resume posting in the digitalvampire blog and/or participate in the upstreamming of soft-RoCE driver? some folks here are working on this, so

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-17 Thread Roland Dreier
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Seems like Roland isn't around to carry the rdma pull request for 4.1 ... Why do you ignore my emails (I see no reply to http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg24194.html) and jump to this conclusion? I will send a pull

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-16 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2015-04-16 at 15:37 -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:26:47AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:39:13AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Let’s take this

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:26:47AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:39:13AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Let’s take this as a starting point. If there are other patches people think

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:39:13AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Let’s take this as a starting point. If there are other patches people think should make 4.1, please bring them to my attention and I’ll add them for review and possible addition to the list. git://github.com/dledford/linux.git

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-16 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:13 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:39:13AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: Let’s take this as a starting point. If there are other patches people think should make 4.1, please bring them to my attention and I’ll add

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 4/15/2015 4:07 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Sagi Grimberg sa...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On 4/15/2015 3:39 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Pradeep Kankipati pradeep.kankip...@emulex.com wrote: We at Emulex, have been working with Doug on

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Doug Ledford
On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Sagi Grimberg sa...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On 4/15/2015 3:39 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Pradeep Kankipati pradeep.kankip...@emulex.com wrote: We at Emulex, have been working with Doug on the RH inboxing effort for a while and

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 4/15/2015 3:39 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 7:43 AM, Pradeep Kankipati pradeep.kankip...@emulex.com wrote: We at Emulex, have been working with Doug on the RH inboxing effort for a while and feel this just makes complete sense for him to take on this role for all the

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Doug Ledford
; Hefty, Sean; Roland Dreier; Hal Rosenstock; David Miller; Or Gerlitz; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; ta...@mellanox.com; Amir Vadai; Sagi Grimberg; Haggai Eran; Shachar Raindel Subject: Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Roland Dreier
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: Regardless of what we end up doing long term, Roland is out at the moment, so 4.1 is happening more or less without him :-/ Sorry. I am back at work now. I went ahead and put together a 4.1 branch and pulled the

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Doug Ledford dledf...@redhat.com wrote: Regardless of what we end up doing long term, Roland is out at the moment, so 4.1 is happening more or less without him :-/ Sorry. I am back at

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-15 Thread Steve Wise
Miller; Or Gerlitz; Weiny, Ira; linux- r...@vger.kernel.org; ta...@mellanox.com; Amir Vadai; Sagi Grimberg; Haggai Eran; Shachar Raindel Subject: Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management) On Apr 13, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Jason

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: Or, I was also a bit annoyed by your last email, the tone just seemed inappropriate/in-gracious for the situation. I made a full clarification and wait to see Sean's response. Sean is doing excellent work

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 8:53 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: As far as patches go, you keep asking for reviews, but where are the reviews from Mellanox? I count 45 @mellanox folks who contributed to the kernel, but I wouldn't have guessed that based on mailing list

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 7:10 PM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: Unfortunately, Sean -- you haven't provided for 2 months any feedback on the patches to the CM/CMA modules which you own/maintain for supporting name-spaces and such which are part of enabling proper RDMA support for

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 1:51 AM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: I don't think you understand how deep the problem Or is

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread ira.weiny
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 01:14:40PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: On Apr 13, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:33PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote: That would make sense to have someone like Doug or Jason being the

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-14 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 4/13/2015 8:14 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: Same here (having been asked privately to look into doing this). FWIW, Red Hat has agreed that they are willing to allow me to transition my job to a full time upstream focused position (as of now, I work on upstream around my deliverables inside the

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-13 Thread Hefty, Sean
Same here (having been asked privately to look into doing this). FWIW, Red Hat has agreed that they are willing to allow me to transition my job to a full time upstream focused position (as of now, I work on upstream around my deliverables inside the company). Excellent. To me, this seems

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 04:10:16PM +, Hefty, Sean wrote: Unfortunately, Sean -- you haven't provided for 2 months any feedback on the patches to the CM/CMA modules which you own/maintain for supporting name-spaces and such which are part of enabling proper RDMA support for containers.

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-13 Thread Doug Ledford
On Apr 13, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:33PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote: That would make sense to have someone like Doug or Jason being the potential successors to Roland in order to keep InfiniBand subsystem

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-13 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, Apr 12, 2015 at 07:16:33PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote: That would make sense to have someone like Doug or Jason being the potential successors to Roland in order to keep InfiniBand subsystem vendor neutrality. Several people have been asking me privately, I am looking into if this

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-13 Thread Hefty, Sean
Unfortunately, Sean -- you haven't provided for 2 months any feedback on the patches to the CM/CMA modules which you own/maintain for supporting name-spaces and such which are part of enabling proper RDMA support for containers. http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdevm=142366747608908w=2 This makes

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-12 Thread Yann Droneaud
Hi, Le vendredi 10 avril 2015 à 20:39 +, Hefty, Sean a écrit : I'm on a perhaps-unfortunately-timed vacation this week, but to make the transition smooth, I'll handle the easy patches that are in flight for 4.1, and then turn things over to the community for 4.2. (Unless the feeling

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-11 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: This thread has made me realize that even as I am able to carve out more time to work on things like IB maintaintership, I no longer have the desire to spend my time maintaining the IB subsystem. Since my current level

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-11 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: I don't think you understand how deep the problem Or is describing goes. [...Appropriate and correct critique...] This thread has

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-10 Thread Hefty, Sean
I'm on a perhaps-unfortunately-timed vacation this week, but to make the transition smooth, I'll handle the easy patches that are in flight for 4.1, and then turn things over to the community for 4.2. (Unless the feeling is that it's better for me to step down immediately — I have no problem

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-09 Thread Weiny, Ira
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: I don't think you understand how deep the problem Or is describing goes. [...Appropriate and correct critique...] This thread has made me realize that even as I am able to carve out more time to

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-09 Thread Doug Ledford
On Thu, 2015-04-09 at 10:41 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Jason Gunthorpe jguntho...@obsidianresearch.com wrote: I don't think you understand how deep the problem Or is describing goes. [...Appropriate and correct critique...] This thread has made me

RE: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-09 Thread Hefty, Sean
This thread has made me realize that even as I am able to carve out more time to work on things like IB maintaintership, I no longer have the desire to spend my time maintaining the IB subsystem. Since my current level of activity is clearly hurting the community, I've decided to step

Re: Stepping down as maintainer (was Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management)

2015-04-09 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 10:41:13AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: This thread has made me realize that even as I am able to carve out more time to work on things like IB maintaintership, I no longer have the desire to spend my time maintaining the IB subsystem. Since my current level of activity

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-08 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. No maintainer voice makes it kind of impossible for discussions to converge. What happens over the last years is that when there's no easy

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-07 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 04:46:26PM -0400, David Miller wrote: From: Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:51:08 -0700 On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. No maintainer voice makes it kind of impossible for discussions to

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-05 Thread Roland Dreier
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. No maintainer voice makes it kind of impossible for discussions to converge. What happens over the last years is that when there's no easy consensus on matter Y, everyone stops breathing and wait to see what

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-05 Thread David Miller
From: Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 07:51:08 -0700 On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed. No maintainer voice makes it kind of impossible for discussions to converge. What happens over the last years is that when there's no easy

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-04 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 1:31 AM, ira.weiny ira.we...@intel.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:32:53PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: [snip] Your claim says more or less don't touch the good old include/rdma/ib_verbs.h from

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-02 Thread ira.weiny
On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 05:32:53PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: [snip] Your claim says more or less don't touch the good old include/rdma/ib_verbs.h from 2.6.12, just add new low-level drivers -- this is very close to

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-04-02 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 12:33 AM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: I must disagree. You made this claim back when we submitted the IB core patch which adds support for signature, protection etc offloads (commit 1b01d33560e7 IB/core: Introduce signature verbs API and the detailed replied

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: Roland, I have to genuinely agree with Or, that your handling of patch integration is sub-par and really painful for anyone actually trying to get real work done here. If you simply don't have the time to devote to

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 3/31/2015 6:47 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: Roland, I have to genuinely agree with Or, that your handling of patch integration is sub-par and really painful for anyone actually trying to get real work done here. If you simply don't have the time to devote to constantly reviewing patches as they

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
Well this needs to be addressed yes but in order to have that done someone needs to step forward do the proper work, maintain git trees, do the review and show up for the conferences. Neither Roland nor Or was there at the Infiniband conferences in Monterey this year(!) and this is the prime venue

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On 3/31/2015 8:49 AM, Christoph Lameter wrote: Well this needs to be addressed yes but in order to have that done someone needs to step forward do the proper work, maintain git trees, do the review and show up for the conferences. Neither Roland nor Or was there at the Infiniband conferences

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread David Miller
From: Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 14:22:50 +0300 On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 6:47 AM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: Roland, I have to genuinely agree with Or, that your handling of patch integration is sub-par and really painful for anyone actually trying to

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Sean and Hal showed up for the conference. Sean is active mostly in focusing on userspace stuff. Both could become more involved in the kernel ib tree and the review process? Hal is employed by Mellanox but is not participating in these patch

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread David Miller
From: Christoph Lameter c...@linux.com Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 07:49:38 -0500 (CDT) Well this needs to be addressed yes but in order to have that done someone needs to step forward do the proper work, maintain git trees, do the review and show up for the conferences. Neither Roland nor Or was

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Tue, 31 Mar 2015, David Miller wrote: Well this needs to be addressed yes but in order to have that done someone needs to step forward do the proper work, maintain git trees, do the review and show up for the conferences. Neither Roland nor Or was there at the Infiniband conferences in

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:13:58PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote: We had a talk about a similar topic at LSFMM15. Linux-scsi subsystem is a large scale subsystem and also has the single maintainer with limited time for upstream maintenance bottleneck. Christoph created the scsi-queue tree to

RE: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Hefty, Sean
It doesn't take a lot of time to do this work, especially if you use the correct tools. I can review and apply 100 patches a day, even when I'm on vacation. I'm an extreme example, but what you're doing right now Roland is not acceptable and is not in agreement with your claims about how

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Hefty, Sean sean.he...@intel.com wrote: I honestly think part of the issue here is general approach being taken by the rdma stack, which is to expose every hardware specific component that a vendor might define through the interfaces up to the consumers.

RE: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-31 Thread Hefty, Sean
I must disagree. You made this claim back when we submitted the IB core patch which adds support for signature, protection etc offloads (commit 1b01d33560e7 IB/core: Introduce signature verbs API and the detailed replied you got were explaining that And I'll continue to make this claim

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-30 Thread David Miller
From: Or Gerlitz gerlitz...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:17:01 +0300 On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Or Gerlitz ogerl...@mellanox.com wrote: Under the existing implementation for virtual GIDs, if the SM is not reachable or incurs a delayed response, or if the VF is probed into a VM

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-30 Thread Roland Dreier
Roland, I have to genuinely agree with Or, that your handling of patch integration is sub-par and really painful for anyone actually trying to get real work done here. If you simply don't have the time to devote to constantly reviewing patches as they come in, and doing so in a timely

Re: [PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 4:51 PM, Or Gerlitz ogerl...@mellanox.com wrote: Under the existing implementation for virtual GIDs, if the SM is not reachable or incurs a delayed response, or if the VF is probed into a VM before their GUID is registered with the SM, there exists a window in time in

[PATCH for-next 0/9] mlx4 changes in virtual GID management

2015-03-29 Thread Or Gerlitz
Under the existing implementation for virtual GIDs, if the SM is not reachable or incurs a delayed response, or if the VF is probed into a VM before their GUID is registered with the SM, there exists a window in time in which the VF sees an incorrect GID, i.e., not the GID that was intended by