netdev - Re: [NET-NEXT v4 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB to the kernel and ixgbe driver

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Message-Id: <20081120.210239.215795673.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:02:39 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [NET-NEXT v4 PATCH 1/5] ixgbe: this patch adds support for DCB
 to the kernel and ixgbe driver

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:00:55 -0800

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
>
> This adds support for Data Center Bridging (DCB) features in the
> ixgbe driver and adds an rtnetlink interface for configuring DCB to
> the kernel.  The DCB feature support included are Priority Grouping
> (PG) - which allows bandwidth guarantees to be allocated to groups
> to traffic based on the 802.1q priority, and Priority Based Flow
> Control (PFC) - which introduces a new MAC control PAUSE frame which
> works at granularity of the 802.1p priority instead of the link
> (IEEE 802.3x).
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>

Applied.
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