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

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 10:28:57AM +0800, Cheng Xu wrote:
> 
> 
> 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.

I'm not big fan of such answers, but ok, applied.

> 
> Thanks,
> Cheng Xu
> 
> 



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