netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Enable FCoE offload when DCB is enabled for 82599

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Message-Id: <20090723.110607.28145569.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:06:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, yi.zou@...el.com,
	peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 1/2] ixgbe: Enable FCoE offload when DCB is
 enabled for 82599

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:07:12 -0700

> From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
> 
> Currently, FCoE offload feature is turned on when the kernel config has
> CONFIG_FCOE or CONFIG_FCOE_MODULE set. However, we really want to turn
> FCoE offload on when there is FCoE traffic passing and turn it off when
> it's just LAN traffic. Since FCoE depends on a lossless network provided
> by DCB, this allows us to have FCoE turned on/off when user turns on DCB
> using dcbtool.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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