netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] mlx4: Fix VF MAC address change under RoCE usage

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Date:	Thu, 15 May 2014 23:39:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amirv@...lanox.com, matanb@...lanox.com,
	roland@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] mlx4: Fix VF MAC address change under RoCE
 usage

From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 15:29:26 +0300

> Hi Dave, Roland

I don't see Roland Dreier on the CC: list, I have added him.

> This short series provides proper handling for the case where a 
> VF netdevice change their MAC address under a RoCE use case. The code
> it deals with was introduced in 3.15-rc1
> 
> Prior to this series the source MAC used for the VM RoCE CM
> packets remains as before the MAC modification. Hence RoCE CM 
> packets sent by the VF will not carry the same source MAC 
> address as the non-CM packets.
> 
> Earlier 3.15-rc commit f24f790 "net/mlx4_core: Load the Eth driver 
> first" handled just one instance of the problem, but this one 
> provides a more generic and proper solution which covers all 
> cases of VF mac change.
> 
> Matan and Or.

Do you guys want this to go via my 'net' tree or via Roland's
'infiniband' tree?
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