From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rose, Gregory V" Subject: RE: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: In SR-IOV mode insert delay before bring the adapter up Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:45:40 -0700 Message-ID: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A3718698@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <20100324193515.6078.27035.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100324193608.6078.61157.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20100326.115753.160228163.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "gospo@redhat.com" To: David Miller , "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:57739 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751731Ab0CZTpn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:45:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100326.115753.160228163.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: >-----Original Message----- >From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] >Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 11:58 AM >To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T >Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; gospo@redhat.com; Rose, Gregory V >Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH 2/3] ixgbe: In SR-IOV mode insert delay >before bring the adapter up > > > > My point is that this behavior is basically extremely undesirable. No argument from me there. We've been discussing design changes to maintain a little more state in the driver so that we wouldn't have to reset the entire device every time someone makes a minor configuration change. However, I have no target date for that. I agree that at some point in systems with a large number of interfaces this behavior becomes untenable. - Greg