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Subject: Re: [GIT] Networking
From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 6:39 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> >
> >   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git master
>
> Just going through the conflicts, I see commit 7193a141eb74 ("IB/mlx4:
> Set VF to read from QP counters"), and wonder...
>
> Is that code really supposed to fall through to the
> infiniband-over-ethernet case when the link layer is
> IB_LINK_LAYER_INFINIBAND but it's a slave?
>
> The commit message is not in the least helpful.
>

And this is a bug indeed.

Under IB links, we should use the the infiniband-over-ethernet flow only for one
specific case (reading link performance counters by SRIOV VFs) and nothing else.

I sent a fix, https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/6675921/

Or.