[ofa-general] Re: [ewg] [UPDATE][PATCH] IPoIB-UD 4K MTU patch against 2.6.24 ofed-1.3-git tree

[Shirley Ma]

Hello Tziporet,

On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 18:56 +0200, Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Shirley Ma wrote:
> >
> > Hello Tziporet,
> >
> > The problem was because of the last check in of small UDP performance 
> > patch. It changed the receiving path completely. And I only got less 
> > than one day to merge/test the patch with that patch on both intel and 
> > PPC platform. The patch was in good/stable shape before this patch. It 
> > has passed stress test for both intel and PPC platform. I have tested 
> > the whole night of the new patch yesterday night. It works well and 
> > passes the stress test without any problem.
> >
> Which OS have you tested?

2.6.24 kernel, and I am going to test SLES10SP2 kernel. It has passed
stress test the whole night for 2K MTU test suites.

> > Regarding Eli's comments, I have sent out. I am sorry for the minor 
> > mistake because of the rushing, but I don't see any risk from my test 
> > results. Please reconsider this patch to be in OFED-1.3.
> >
> OK - we will do this - we will run one set of our regression with your 
> patch now, and also check that it pass compilation on all kernels.
> If both will be OK we will take it.
> 
> I cross fingers for you :-)
> 
> ziporet

Appreciate you, Vlad and Eli's help here! There is one line change
needed for backporting ++priv->stats and ++dev->stats. I didn't create
the backport patch for this.

thanks
Shirley