netdev - Re: [rds-devel] net-next pull request: RDS

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Message-ID: <20100913171428.GR21374@think>
Date:	Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:14:28 -0400
From:	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...taire.com>
Cc:	Andy Grover <andy.grover@...cle.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, RDS Devel <rds-devel@....oracle.com>,
	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Subject: Re: [rds-devel] net-next pull request: RDS

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 10:49:38AM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Hi Andy, 
> 
> Some clarifications/questions from whatever quick look one can have over 107 patches...
> 
> Zach Brown's "RDS/IB: print IB event strings as well as their number" - commit
> 1bde04a63d532c2540d6fdee0a661530a62b1686 in net-next-2.6 looks perfect to reside as a helper function in the core IB stack which can be in use by other rdma drivers (e.g ipoib, iser, srp, etc). 
> 
> Chris Mason's "rds: recycle FMRs through lockless lists added net/rds/xlist.h" - 6fa70da6081bbcf948801fd5ee0be4d222298a43 adds net/rds/xlist.h - isn't this something that better be placed under include/linux/. etc?

Yes, I plan on expanding xlist.h a little and trying to use it in a few
other places.  But since RDS is currently the only consumer it made sense
to me to keep it in rds until I had more code in line to take advantage
of it.

-chris
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