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From: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>,
	Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 09/11] devlink: Add new enable_ecn generic device param
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 10:56:52 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALs4sv0Y5bw85bh9=6T2EmwGKqJvjNr-ptw8Kovyp7Bb6mHDDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200317105220.3ae07cad@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 11:22 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 20:47:24 +0530 Vasundhara Volam wrote:
> > From: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
> >
> > Add new device parameter to enable/disable handling of Explicit
> > Congestion Notification(ECN) in the device.
> >
> > This patch also addresses comments from Jiri Pirko, to update the
> > devlink-info.rst documentation.
> >
> > Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavan Chebbi <pavan.chebbi@broadcom.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
>
> Nacked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
>
> We've been over this multiple times. Devlink is not for configuring
> forwarding features. Use qdisc offload.

This is just a config option like enable_sriov and enable_roce.
This will only enable the capability in the device and not configure any rules.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-18  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17 15:17 [PATCH net-next 07/11] bnxt_en: Read partno and serialno of the board from VPD Vasundhara Volam
2020-03-17 15:17 ` [PATCH net-next 08/11] bnxt_en: Add partno and serialno to devlink info_get cb Vasundhara Volam
2020-03-17 17:51   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-17 15:17 ` [PATCH net-next 09/11] devlink: Add new enable_ecn generic device param Vasundhara Volam
2020-03-17 17:52   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-18  5:26     ` Pavan Chebbi [this message]
2020-03-18 20:15       ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-03-17 15:17 ` [PATCH net-next 10/11] bnxt_en: Update firmware interface spec to 1.10.1.26 Vasundhara Volam
2020-03-17 15:17 ` [PATCH net-next 11/11] bnxt_en: Use "enable_ecn" devlink param Vasundhara Volam

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