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Message-ID: <20151109001225.GA4705@gwshan>
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:12:25 +1100
From: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gwshan@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v1 0/7] NCSI Support
On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 02:09:42PM +1100, Gavin Shan wrote:
Please ignore this series. A new RFC patchset is going to be sent with more improved
as I was suggested:
* Explaning what's NCSI and how the code is designed.
* Dropped netlink interface so that we can focus on NCSI stack at current stage
Thanks,
Gavin
>This patchset is prototype requesting for comments.
>
>This series of patches intends to support NCSI stack, which is specified by
>DSP0222. One NCSI enabled interface potentially connects to multiple packages
>and channels, but there is one active channel at once when hardware arbitration
>is disabled. No hardware arbitration isn't supported by this patchset:
>
> * NIC driver registers NCSI device when the network device is registered. The
> NCSI device should be started when bringing up the interface so that the
> active channel can be choosed from the available channels and starts to provide
> service.
> * When NCSI AEN packet is received from currently active channel for sake of
> failure, another active channel is tried to choosed to accomplish the failover.
> * Reserved netlink interface for NCSI is supported so that userland can retrieve
> NCSI information or configure from/to NCSI channels.
> * The first user of NCSI stack is faraday driver (ftgmac100.c).
>
>Gavin Shan (7):
> net/ncsi: Resource management
> net/ncsi: Packet handler
> net/ncsi: Manage NCSI device
> net/ncsi: Netlink support
> net/faraday: Replace use_nc_si with use_ncsi
> net/faraday: Enable NCSI interface
> net/faraday: Enable offload checksum according to device-tree
>
> drivers/net/ethernet/faraday/ftgmac100.c | 109 ++-
> include/net/ncsi.h | 59 ++
> include/uapi/linux/if_ether.h | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h | 200 +++++
> include/uapi/linux/netlink.h | 1 +
> net/Kconfig | 1 +
> net/Makefile | 1 +
> net/ncsi/Kconfig | 10 +
> net/ncsi/Makefile | 5 +
> net/ncsi/internal.h | 165 +++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c | 197 +++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c | 380 ++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c | 914 +++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 1042 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h | 391 ++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 1167 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/ncsi/ncsi.c | 49 ++
> 17 files changed, 4661 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 include/net/ncsi.h
> create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/ncsi.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Kconfig
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/Makefile
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/internal.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-aen.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-cmd.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-manage.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-pkt.h
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
> create mode 100644 net/ncsi/ncsi.c
>
>--
>2.1.0
>
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