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Message-ID: <5530BE97.1010501@profitbricks.com>
Date:	Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:04:39 +0200
From:	Michael Wang <yun.wang@...fitbricks.com>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	'Jason Gunthorpe' <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
CC:	'Roland Dreier' <roland@...nel.org>,
	'Sean Hefty' <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	'Hal Rosenstock' <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	'Tom Tucker' <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	'Hoang-Nam Nguyen' <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	'Christoph Raisch' <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	'Mike Marciniszyn' <infinipath@...el.com>,
	'Eli Cohen' <eli@...lanox.com>,
	'Faisal Latif' <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
	'Jack Morgenstein' <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>,
	'Or Gerlitz' <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	'Haggai Eran' <haggaie@...lanox.com>,
	'Ira Weiny' <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
	'Tom Talpey' <tom@...pey.com>,
	'Doug Ledford' <dledford@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 27/28] IB/Verbs: Clean up rdma_ib_or_iboe()

On 04/16/2015 08:07 PM, Steve Wise wrote:
> 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 11:43 AM
>> To: Michael Wang
>> Cc: Roland Dreier; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock; linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; Tom Tucker; Steve Wise;
>> Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Christoph Raisch; Mike Marciniszyn; Eli Cohen; Faisal Latif; Jack Morgenstein; Or Gerlitz; Haggai Eran; Ira
> Weiny;
>> Tom Talpey; Doug Ledford
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 27/28] IB/Verbs: Clean up rdma_ib_or_iboe()
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 11:13:03AM +0200, Michael Wang wrote:
>>
>>>> I would be very happy to see a patch that adds cap_ib_smi to the
>>>> current tree and states 'This patch is tested to have no change on the
>>>> binary compilation results'
>>>
>>> There are too much reform there (per-dev to per-port), I guess the binary
>>> will changed more or less anyway...
>>
>> I think this patch series is huge, and everytime someone new looks at
>> it small functional errors seem to pop up..
>>
>> Doing something to reduce the review surface would be really helpful
>> here. Not changing the same line twice, using tools too perform these
>> transforms and then assert the patch is a NOP because .. tools. Some
>> other idea?
>>
> 
> Don't try and change everything in one giant series.   Just do some changes this cycle (keep it at < 8 or 10 patches), and do more
> later...

Actually only 1#~15# related to logical reform, rest are just replacement :-)

Me too would like to stop introducing new stuff at this moment, and focus on
the improvement of what we have already settled down.

Regards,
Michael Wang

> 
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