netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] qedi: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload iSCSI driver framework.

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Message-ID: <b6d4767e-47e2-a265-c4f8-5081a273b819@suse.de>
Date:   Tue, 15 Nov 2016 08:21:50 +0100
From:   Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:     "Rangankar, Manish" <Manish.Rangankar@...ium.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "lduncan@...e.com" <lduncan@...e.com>,
        Chris Leech <cleech@...hat.com>
Cc:     "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Dept-Eng QLogic Storage Upstream 
        <QLogic-Storage-Upstream@...ium.com>,
        "Mintz, Yuval" <Yuval.Mintz@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/6] qedi: Add QLogic FastLinQ offload iSCSI driver
 framework.

On 11/15/2016 07:14 AM, Rangankar, Manish wrote:
> Hi Hannes,
> 
> Please find the response below,
> 
> On 11/11/16 10:13 PM, "Hannes Reinecke" <hare@...e.de> wrote:
> 
[ .. ]
>> Please use the irq-affinity rework from Christoph here; that'll save you
>> the additional msix vectors allocation.
> 
> The existing qed* driver(s) and common module (qed) framework is built on
> top of the older pci_enable_msix_*() API. The new framework requires
> re-work on the existing qed common module API. That would need
> co-ordination among other dependent drivers (e.g.: qede network driver,
> which is already in the tree). We would prefer to add this as a follow on
> (to the initial submission) effort, with additional testing done and
> submission co-ordinated across protocol drivers.
> 
Ok, fair enough.

Cheers,

Hannes
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