Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-20 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
[+cc Arnd] On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Michel Machado wrote: > On 03/18/2015 06:27 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote: >> Hi Michel, >> If you want an example of how to break a fairly medium+ >> code-base/driver, I believe amdkfd is a good example. Originally, I had >> dumped 80+ patches, but after getti

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-20 Thread Michel Machado
On 03/18/2015 06:27 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote: > Hi Michel, > If you want an example of how to break a fairly medium+ > code-base/driver, I believe amdkfd is a good example. Originally, I had > dumped 80+ patches, but after getting some flames & help from drm devs, > I rearranged them into a nicely 25

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-18 Thread Oded Gabbay
On 03/17/2015 02:25 PM, Michel Machado wrote: On 03/15/2015 05:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Michel Machado wrote: On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely incompetent to judge the m

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Michel Machado
On 03/15/2015 06:03 AM, Oded Gabbay wrote: Hi Michel, Although I don't know you and I'm not familiar with XIA, I would like to encourage you to listen to Greg and continue with your efforts to upstream XIA. I can tell you, from my recent experience of upstreaming AMD's HSA driver to drm (amdkfd

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-17 Thread Michel Machado
On 03/15/2015 05:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Michel Machado wrote: On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a reasonable

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-15 Thread Oded Gabbay
On 03/15/2015 11:37 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Michel Machado wrote: On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a reasonab

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-15 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 11:26:46AM -0400, Michel Machado wrote: > On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > > From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely > >incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a > >reasonable starting point for a discussion

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-13 Thread Michel Machado
On 03/10/2015 01:01 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a reasonable starting point for a discussion, and I'm disappointed that it got shut down so fast. It might not be in

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-10 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:01 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > >> From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely >> incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a >> reasonable starting point for a discuss

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-10 Thread Eric Dumazet
On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:01 -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > From my point of view (far outside the networking world and completely > incompetent to judge the merits of XIA), this email seems like a > reasonable starting point for a discussion, and I'm disappointed that > it got shut down so fast. I

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-10 Thread Bjorn Helgaas
On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Michel Machado wrote: > Hi there, > >We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that emphasizes > evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and it has now > reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment with it. In >

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-05 Thread Michel Machado
>>We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that >> emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, >> and it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to >> experiment with it. > > From looking at your wiki, "network stack" may have been a poor

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-05 Thread Alex Elsayed
Michel Machado wrote: > Hi there, > > We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that > emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and > it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment > with it. >From looking at your wiki, "netw

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-04 Thread Michel Machado
On 03/04/2015 12:49 AM, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:31:58PM -0500, Michel Machado wrote: Hi Daniel, We're fine with clearly marking Linux XIA as being under staging as well as helping to define this review process for network stacks. With regard to staging, the code there is us

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 07:31:58PM -0500, Michel Machado wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > >>We're fine with clearly marking Linux XIA as being under staging > >>as well as helping to define this review process for network stacks. > > > >With regard to staging, the code there is usually horrible and I'm > >

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Michel Machado
Hi Daniel, We're fine with clearly marking Linux XIA as being under staging as well as helping to define this review process for network stacks. With regard to staging, the code there is usually horrible and I'm not sure anyone really looks there, that would mitigate the review problem to the

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Michel Machado
Hi Eric, Linux XIA is not yet mature enough for production, but we do think that broader exposure will help us to move forward faster, and get more in tune with the interested community. Thus, we are writing to ask to merge our work into the Linux kernel. I took a quick glance at the code

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Daniel Borkmann
On 03/03/2015 06:29 PM, Michel Machado wrote: ... We're fine with clearly marking Linux XIA as being under staging as well as helping to define this review process for network stacks. With regard to staging, the code there is usually horrible and I'm not sure anyone really looks there, tha

Re: Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Michel Machado writes: >Linux XIA is not yet mature enough for production, but we do think > that broader exposure will help us to move forward faster, and get > more in tune with the interested community. Thus, we are writing to > ask to merge our work into the Linux kernel. I took a quick

Linux XIA - merge proposal

2015-03-03 Thread Michel Machado
Hi there, We have been developing Linux XIA, a new network stack that emphasizes evolvability and interoperability, for a couple of years, and it has now reached a degree of maturity that allows others to experiment with it. In addition to the kernel implementation, we have a userland too