netdev - Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: filter FIP frames into the FCoE offload queues

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Message-Id: <20100326.115837.207504807.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com,
	christopher.leech@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/2] ixgbe: filter FIP frames into the FCoE
 offload queues

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 15:45:21 -0700

> From: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@...el.com>
> 
> During FCF solicitation, the switch is supposed to pad the
> solicited advertisement out to the endpoints specified
> maximum FCoE frame size.  That means that we need to receive
> FIP frames that are larger than the standard MTU.  To make
> sure the receive queue is configured correctly, we should be
> filtering FIP traffic into the FCoE queues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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