Roland Dreier <[email protected]> wrote: > The obvious answer is no, and therefore we have mlx4_portX attributes in > sysfs that are per port. MTU is the same way. For example, you suggest > that CX3 won't have the same limitation of only 4 VLs with 4K MTU. In > that case, think about a system with one CX2 and one CX3 -- should the > CX3 be limited to 2K MTU because of CX2 limitations? > > Rather than having a completely different way of handling MTU, why can't > we just handle it the same way as the port type, and have a sysfs attribute > like "mlx4_mtuN" for each port?
okay, got that. I'd like to make another round of thinking / checking if we can make 4k mtu being the default and not configurable also for pre-CX3 devices, if yes, I guess we can avoid the per port sysfs entry, if not, I'll add that as part of the patch. Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
