netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] eth: remove neterion/vxge

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Message-ID: <Yr8Amo0lQzfia4+3@eidolon.nox.tf>
Date:   Fri, 1 Jul 2022 16:11:38 +0200
From:   David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] eth: remove neterion/vxge

On Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 04:06:11PM +0200, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Fri, Jul 01, 2022 at 03:17:32PM CEST, equinox@...c24.net wrote:
> >As a "reference datapoint", I'm a user that was affected by the removal
> >of the Mellanox SwitchX-2 driver about a year ago.  But that was a bit
> 
> You could not be. There was really no functionality implemented in
> switchx2 driver. I doubt you used 32x40G port switch with slow-path
> forwarding through kernel with total max bandwidth of like 1-2G for the
> whole switch :)

Funny you would mention that, that's exactly as far as I got - on some
attempts at least, when I didn't get an initialization failure after a
15 minute reset timer ;D