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From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "'Rick Jones'" <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Cc: "'davem@davemloft.net'" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"'netdev@vger.kernel.org'" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Dmitry Kravkov" <dmitry@broadcom.com>,
	"Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable LRO on FCoE or iSCSI boot device
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 08:53:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C27F8246C663564A84BB7AB34397724266D2018303@IRVEXCHCCR01.corp.ad.broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E9855EC.1020509@hp.com>

Rick Jones wrote:

> Is this perhaps saying that a bnx2x-driven device being used for FCoE
> or
> iSCSI boot must not permit *any* run-time configuration change which
> leads to a NIC reset?
> 

That is right.  Unless you have a multipath configuration with multiple
ports, then you can reset one port at a time.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-14 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-14  3:38 [PATCH net-next] bnx2x: Disable LRO on FCoE or iSCSI boot device Michael Chan
2011-10-14 15:31 ` Rick Jones
2011-10-14 15:53   ` Michael Chan [this message]
2011-10-14 16:06     ` Rick Jones
2011-10-14 16:15       ` Michael Chan
2011-10-14 20:17         ` John Fastabend
2011-10-14 20:59           ` Michael Chan
2011-10-19 20:06 ` David Miller
2011-10-19 20:12   ` Michael Chan
2011-10-19 20:47     ` David Miller
2011-10-19 20:53       ` John Fastabend
2011-10-19 21:03         ` David Miller
2011-10-27 23:30         ` Michael Chan
2012-02-13 11:20 Vasily Averin
2012-02-13 19:09 ` Michael Chan

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