Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-15 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 09:03:58PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Miller > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:52:40 -0700 (PDT) > > > From: Simon Horman > > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:13:48 +0200 > > > >> Could you pull net into net-next? I'd like to send up a follow-up > >> for net-next to all

Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-15 Thread David Miller
From: David Miller Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 17:52:40 -0700 (PDT) > From: Simon Horman > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:13:48 +0200 > >> Could you pull net into net-next? I'd like to send up a follow-up >> for net-next to allow processing of the MTU. > > Once Linus takes the pull request I just sent t

Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-15 Thread David Miller
From: Simon Horman Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:13:48 +0200 > Could you pull net into net-next? I'd like to send up a follow-up > for net-next to allow processing of the MTU. Once Linus takes the pull request I just sent to him, I will do this.

Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-14 Thread Simon Horman
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 02:51:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Simon Horman > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:18:20 +0200 > > > The Flower app may receive a request to update the MTU of a representor > > netdev upon receipt of a control message from the firmware. This requires > > the RTNL lock

Re: [PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-11 Thread David Miller
From: Simon Horman Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:18:20 +0200 > The Flower app may receive a request to update the MTU of a representor > netdev upon receipt of a control message from the firmware. This requires > the RTNL lock which needs to be taken outside of the packet processing > path. > > As a

[PATCH net repost] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app

2017-08-11 Thread Simon Horman
The Flower app may receive a request to update the MTU of a representor netdev upon receipt of a control message from the firmware. This requires the RTNL lock which needs to be taken outside of the packet processing path. As a handling of this correctly seems a little to invasive for a fix simply