RE: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] qedf: Keep track of num of pending flogi.

[Saurav Kashyap <skashyap@marvell.com>]

Hi Martin,

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> From: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 1/7] qedf: Keep track of num of pending flogi.
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> Saurav,
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> Please, no "." at the end of Subject: lines.
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> > - Problem: Port not coming up after bringing down the port
> >   for longer duration.
> > - Bring down the port from the switch
> > - wait for fipvlan to exhaust, driver will use
> >   default vlan (1002) and call fcoe_ctlr_link_up
> > - libfc/fcoe will start sending FLOGI
> > - bring back the port and switch discard FLOGI
> >   because vlan is different.
> > - keep track of pending flogi and if it increases
> >   certain number then do ctx reset and it will do
> >   fipvlan again.
> 
> That doesn't look like a proper commit message.
> 
> How about something like:
> 
>     If a port is brought down for an extended period of time, the
>     fipvlan counter gets exhausted and the driver will fall back to
>     default VLAN 1002 and call fcoe_ctlr_link_up to log in. However, the
>     switch will discard the FLOGI attempt because the VLAN is now
>     different.
> 
>     Keep track of the number of FLOGI attempts and if a threshold of
>     QEDF_FLOGI_RETRY_CNT is exceeded, perform a context soft reset.

<SK> Looks good.

Thanks,
~Saurav
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