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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2014 07:58:27 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>,
	Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] mlx4: Fix VF MAC address change under RoCE usage

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:39 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>
> From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
> Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:29:26 +0300
>
> > Hi Dave, Roland
>
> I don't see Roland Dreier on the CC: list, I have added him.



thanks

>
>
> > This short series provides proper handling for the case where a
> > VF netdevice change their MAC address under a RoCE use case. The code
> > it deals with was introduced in 3.15-rc1
> >
> > Prior to this series the source MAC used for the VM RoCE CM
> > packets remains as before the MAC modification. Hence RoCE CM
> > packets sent by the VF will not carry the same source MAC
> > address as the non-CM packets.
> >
> > Earlier 3.15-rc commit f24f790 "net/mlx4_core: Load the Eth driver
> > first" handled just one instance of the problem, but this one
> > provides a more generic and proper solution which covers all
> > cases of VF mac change.
> >
> > Matan and Or.
>
> Do you guys want this to go via my 'net' tree or via Roland's
> 'infiniband' tree?


net, since the relevant feature went into 3.15-rc1 through net-next
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