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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:41:29 +0300 From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> To: "David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> cc: meravs@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, dmitry@...adcom.com Subject: Re: [net-next patch v2] bnx2x: Add run-time CNIC support On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 05:37 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: "Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@...adcom.com> > Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:33:54 +0300 > > > On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 05:21 -0700, David Miller wrote: > >> Make it really dynamic, and properly configurable at run time, so > >> people don't have to go through hoops to get the "advantages" you > >> speak so highly of. > > > > This is possible for the resources, but not for the latency - we cannot > > change the HW mode once traffic started to run. Why is that so bad to > > support Kconfig as a working mode like we did thus far? We are using it > > specifically for users that wants to optimize the kernel, so Kconfig > > does not sound that bad in that context. > > Sure you can find a way to make this work, you just really aren't > trying hard enough. > > The current situation is a huge and gross hack. I'm not letting you > continue spreading this disease. > > Implement this properly, I really mean it. > OK. Since it blocks the ability to add SR-IOV support, is it acceptable to submit it as constant enabled for PF and disabled for VF (SR-IOV)? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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