netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2 0/4] dcbnl: Extending dcbnl to support non-host DCBX

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Message-Id: <20101231.105253.112601766.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 2010 10:52:53 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shmulikr@...adcom.com
Cc:	eilong@...adcom.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com,
	lucy.liu@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2 0/4] dcbnl: Extending dcbnl to support
 non-host DCBX

From: "Shmulik Ravid" <shmulikr@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 18:26:42 +0200

> DCBX is the exchange protocol for negotiating DCB parameters between a
> host and a switch. In some circumstances the DCBX negotiator can not
> reside in the host directly on top of the networking interface. For
> instance many converged network adapters support an embedded DCBX engine
> that performs the negotiation and configures the device with the
> negotiated parameters. Another example is virtual hosts and SRIOV
> virtual functions.
> 
> The following patches extend the dcbnl netlink interface so in addition
> to its current semantics it offers a standard mechanism for managing
> such non-host DCBX engines. In this new mode 'set' operations are used
> to set the initial negotiation configuration and the 'get' operation are
> used to retrieve the negotiated results. 

All applied, thanks.
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