netdev - Re: [GIT] Networking

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Date:	Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:01:17 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
	Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git master
>
> Just going through the conflicts, I see commit 7193a141eb74 ("IB/mlx4:
> Set VF to read from QP counters"), and wonder...
>
> Is that code really supposed to fall through to the
> infiniband-over-ethernet case when the link layer is
> IB_LINK_LAYER_INFINIBAND but it's a slave?
>
> The commit message is not in the least helpful.
>

And this is a bug indeed.

Under IB links, we should use the the infiniband-over-ethernet flow only for one
specific case (reading link performance counters by SRIOV VFs) and nothing else.

I sent a fix, https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6675921/

Or.
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