netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Reset RoCE VF gids when guest driver goes down

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2014 16:58:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amirv@...lanox.com,
	jackm@....mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/mlx4_core: Reset RoCE VF gids when guest
 driver goes down

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 09:26:38 +0300

> From: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
> 
> Reset the GIDs assigned to a VF in the port RoCE GID table when
> that guest goes down (either crashes or goes down cleanly).
> 
> As part of this fix, we refactor the RoCE gid table driver copy,
> moving it to the mlx4_port_info structure (together with the MAC
> and VLAN tables).
> 
> As with the MAC and VLAN tables, we now use a mutex per port
> for the GID table so that modifying the driver copy and
> modifying the firmware copy of a port GID table becomes an 
> atomic operation (thus avoiding driver-copy/FW-copy mismatches).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>

Applied, thanks.
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