netdev - Re: [PATCH net 00/13] Mellanox 100G mlx5 resiliency and xmit path fixes

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Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2016 14:22:10 +0300
From:	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 00/13] Mellanox 100G mlx5 resiliency and xmit path fixes

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 1:14 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 17:34:37 +0300
>
>> This series provides two set of fixes to the mlx5 driver:
>>       - Resiliency fixes for reset flow and internal pci errors
>>       - xmit path fixes
>
> Series applied to 'net' but expecting all of this to be backported
> to -stable is unreasonable.
>
> PCI error paths, chip resets, timeout handling, etc. and some
> non-trivial changes.  This is not appropriate for -stable at all.
>
> What's relevant for -stable is operational bug fixes for issues
> users will hit in regular operation.
>
> And yes this is partially my own interpreation of what is appropriate
> for -stable.
>
> But if I were to set the precendence of adding all of these to -stable
> it means people will then be able to request similar things in other
> drivers.  We want to avoid having too much grey area stuff backported
> to -stable, there are too many changes going through -stable already.

Understood,

but some fixes are really really critical to us, so i would suggest
new list for -stable

net/mlx5: Avoid calling sleeping function by the health poll thread
net/mlx5: Fix wait_vital for VFs and remove fixed sleep
net/mlx5e: Copy all L2 headers into inline segment
net/mlx5e: Fix select queue callback

Thanks,
Saeed.