Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/02/2015 11:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > This too was something we discussed at the kernel summit, it's > recommended that you just delete the drivers from where they are now, no > need to move them to staging first. So, don't take any more patches against them then. I'll delete them

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-04 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/04/2015 12:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:00:38AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: >> On 11/02/2015 11:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> This too was something we discussed at the kernel summit, it's >>> recommended that you just delete the drivers from where they

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-04 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 10:00:38AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 11/02/2015 11:16 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > This too was something we discussed at the kernel summit, it's > > recommended that you just delete the drivers from where they are now, no > > need to move them to staging first.

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-03 Thread Chuck Lever
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 6:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: >> 1) Aging, but working, drivers that will be removed in the future. >> Since we no longer have a deprecation mechanism, I was informed that

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > 1) Aging, but working, drivers that will be removed in the future. > Since we no longer have a deprecation mechanism, I was informed that the > normal procedure now is to move the driver to staging for a while and > then remove it

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > Because they are *scheduled* for removal. If I simply didn't care if > they went away, then I wouldn't screw around with deprecating them or > tagging them to be removed, I'd just delete them. Breaking them before > the scheduled

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/01/2015 01:06 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 02:10:48PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: >> On 10/29/2015 1:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >>> I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/02/2015 06:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 06:20:40PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: >> 1) Aging, but working, drivers that will be removed in the future. >> Since we no longer have a deprecation mechanism, I was informed that the >> normal procedure now is to move the

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > > so overall it still benifits being in the > > staging tree, so a few minor breakages every once in a while should be > > easy for you to fix up, _if_ they happen. > > > > Again, I don't know of any recent api change that has caused

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:18:45PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > > > Because they are *scheduled* for removal. If I simply didn't care if > > they went away, then I wouldn't screw around with deprecating them or > > tagging them

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/02/2015 07:18 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> Because they are *scheduled* for removal. If I simply didn't care if >> they went away, then I wouldn't screw around with deprecating them or >> tagging them to be removed, I'd

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:52:05PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > It shouldn't be. I reviewed those changes and they looked right (given > the limitations). All you needed was to boot with nopat on the kernel > command line to get the old kernel behavior and it would continue to > work as before,

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:03:35PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 11/02/2015 08:28 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:52:05PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > >> It shouldn't be. I reviewed those changes and they looked right (given > >> the limitations). All you needed was

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 10:14:06PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 11/02/2015 07:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > >>> so overall it still benifits being in the > >>> staging tree, so a few minor breakages every once in a while

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 09:03:35PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: > No, one kernel consumer that never worked on iWARP before now works on a > different iWARP controller but doesn't work on the old iWARP controller. > Hardly the end of the world. NFS is gone/going as well, and that used to work. No

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-02 Thread Doug Ledford
On 11/02/2015 07:49 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 07:02:04PM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote: >>> so overall it still benifits being in the >>> staging tree, so a few minor breakages every once in a while should be >>> easy for you to fix up, _if_ they happen. >>> >>> Again, I

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-01 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 10/29/2015 1:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > >I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it has been > >pulled in for 4.4. > >This breaks all of the drivers in staging BTW. That will need fixed up >before the

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-11-01 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 02:10:48PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On 10/29/2015 1:51 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > >I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it has been > >pulled in for 4.4. > >>> > >>>This

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-10-29 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > > I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it has been > > pulled in for 4.4. > > This breaks all of the drivers in staging BTW. That will need fixed up > before the pull request goes in during the merge window.

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-10-29 Thread Doug Ledford
On 10/29/2015 07:51 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:57:59PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: >>> I had to do a minor hand merge to get this to apply, but it has been >>> pulled in for 4.4. >> >> This breaks all of the drivers in staging BTW. That will need fixed up >> before

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-10-28 Thread Doug Ledford
On 10/28/2015 10:25 PM, Doug Ledford wrote: > On 09/13/2015 11:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> This series shrinks the WR size by splitting out the different WR >> types. >> >> Patch number one is too large for the mailinglist, so if you didn't >> get it grab it here: >> >> >>

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-10-28 Thread Doug Ledford
On 09/13/2015 11:13 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series shrinks the WR size by splitting out the different WR > types. > > Patch number one is too large for the mailinglist, so if you didn't > get it grab it here: > > >

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-10-11 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 05:13:33PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series shrinks the WR size by splitting out the different WR > types. > > Patch number one is too large for the mailinglist, so if you didn't > get it grab it here: > > >

Re: shrink struct ib_send_wr V4

2015-09-29 Thread Haggai Eran
On 13/09/2015 18:13, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > This series shrinks the WR size by splitting out the different WR > types. > > Patch number one is too large for the mailinglist, so if you didn't > get it grab it here: > > >