From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Knut Omang Subject: Re: Upcoming libibverbs release Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 17:52:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1467129133.8638.75.camel@oracle.com> References: <3b89c411-72be-ddc5-5ebf-009eeee29692@redhat.com> <4ec1d8e6-a908-bb49-a137-415856ec6faa@dev.mellanox.co.il> <20160627181758.GD23540@obsidianresearch.com> <20160628050246.GB3584@leon.nu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20160628050246.GB3584-2ukJVAZIZ/Y@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Leon Romanovsky , Jason Gunthorpe Cc: Yishai Hadas , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma , Yishai Hadas , Matan Barak , Majd Dibbiny , "talal-VPRAkNaXOzVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2016-06-28 at 08:02 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 12:17:58PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > Doug and I have both stated we don't want to see so many > > single-provider APIs and churn in libibverbs. This was designed to > > be > > a generic API that all providers can implement. > > > > The responsibility falls on you to make sure that it works > > universally. Compat is one option. > > > > This is also why it is necessary to get the other provider authors > > to > > say this works on their hardware, because they *all* ultimately > > have > > to implement it. > > > > I don't think many people realize this yet. > > > > Jason, > You are over-estimating the number of other providers who are > interesting in libibverbs in 2014-2016. > > According to git log [1] in these years, I see only one major > contributor to this library. I appreciate Jason's concern for other providers, I can assure we both use libibverbs for the new Oracle HCAs and also have changes/fixes to it. I want to get them out here, just a matter of getting enough time set aside to catch up (with the recent churn on both sides of the kernel/user boundary) > [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/libs/infiniband/libibverbs.git/log/ Thanks, Knut -- Knut Omang, Ph.D Principal Software Engineer Oracle NSN Europe Design Center -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html