Re: [PATCH for-next 4/4] RDMA/erdma: Support dynamic mtu

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On 9/20/22 7:32 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 09, 2022 at 05:38:22PM +0800, Cheng Xu wrote:
>> Hardware now support jumbo frame for RDMA. So we introduce a new CMDQ
>> message to support mtu change notification.
>>
<...>
> 
> I don't see any backward compatibility here. How can you make sure that
> new code that supports MTU change works correctly on old FW/device?
> 

In this case, driver needn't to consider backward compatibility.

ERDMA hardware is programmable part of our iaas infrastructure, and can be
hot-update without BMs/VMs awareness.Before I submitted this patch, all the
FWs has been updated, and support this feature, no old FWs exist.

Thanks,
Cheng Xu





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