From: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk•com>
To: "dledford@redhat•com" <dledford@redhat•com>,
"sean.hefty@intel•com" <sean.hefty@intel•com>,
"niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel•com"
<niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel•com>
Cc: "netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
"linux-rdma@vger•kernel.org" <linux-rdma@vger•kernel.org>,
"dennis.dalessandro@intel•com" <dennis.dalessandro@intel•com>,
"ira.weiny@intel•com" <ira.weiny@intel•com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 21:58:50 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1486504716.2581.8.camel@sandisk.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0E5B6C@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com>
On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand device/protocol.
That's more than clear from the cover letter. In my opinion the cover letter
should explain why it is considered useful to have such a driver upstream
and what the use cases are of encapsulating Ethernet frames inside RDMA
packets.
Bart.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-07 21:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-07 20:22 [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 03/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) netdev Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 05/11] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC statistics support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 06/11] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC MAC table support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 07/11] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) interface Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 08/11] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) function Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 09/11] IB/hfi1: HFI_VNIC RDMA netdev support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
[not found] ` <1486498990-76562-10-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 4:06 ` Parav Pandit
2017-02-08 18:21 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 10/11] IB/hfi1: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) HW support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 11/11] IB/hfi1: VNIC SDMA support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
[not found] ` <1486498990-76562-1-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 01/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) documentation Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
[not found] ` <1486498990-76562-2-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 17:00 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <1486573231.16026.1.camel-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-23 7:24 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 02/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) interface Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 21:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20170207211901.GB28922-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-07 22:06 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 22:19 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20170207221925.GA30579-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 1:04 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-08 6:54 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-02-08 17:29 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-02-08 0:43 ` Parav Pandit
[not found] ` <VI1PR0502MB3008911E9587F4C004BFEF13D1420-o1MPJYiShExKsLr+rGaxW8DSnupUy6xnnBOFsp37pqbUKgpGm//BTAC/G2K4zDHf@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 1:12 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:23 ` [RFC v3 04/11] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management (EM) structure definitions Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-02-07 20:36 ` [RFC v3 00/11] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Leon Romanovsky
[not found] ` <20170207203649.GW6005-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-07 21:00 ` Hefty, Sean
2017-02-07 21:43 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
[not found] ` <20170207214303.GA76652-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 5:18 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-02-08 5:30 ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-02-07 21:28 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-02-07 21:44 ` Hefty, Sean
2017-02-07 21:58 ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
[not found] ` <1486504716.2581.8.camel-XdAiOPVOjttBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 0:54 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
[not found] ` <20170208005416.GA76793-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-08 1:09 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-02-08 7:01 ` Weiny, Ira
2017-02-08 17:21 ` Hefty, Sean
2017-02-08 17:45 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-02-12 13:26 ` Liran Liss
2017-02-13 17:09 ` Jason Gunthorpe
[not found] ` <20170213170935.GD25430-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2017-02-22 8:43 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
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