From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [RFC v3 02/11] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) interface Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 08:54:37 +0200 Message-ID: <20170208065437.GA6005@mtr-leonro.local> References: <1486498990-76562-1-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com> <1486498990-76562-3-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura@intel.com> <20170207211901.GB28922@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="N619HKiDy45kBi0v" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170207211901.GB28922-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Vishwanathapura, Niranjana" , dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, Liran Liss List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --N619HKiDy45kBi0v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 02:19:01PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:23:01PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote: > > Add rdma netdev interface to ib device structure allowing rdma netdev > > devices to be allocated by ib clients. > > Define HFI VNIC interface between hardware independent VNIC > > functionality and the hardware dependent VNIC functionality. > > This commit message could be a bit clearer. > > The alloc_rdma_netdev multiplexer is inteded as a new general > interface and this adds a protocol definition for ethernet VNIC on > OPA. > > The hope is that ipoib can follow the same example and use the same > alloc_rdma_netdev entry point. Hopefully Mellanox will look at this > patch as I have talked to them in the past about doing this... Jason, We looked on it and it is useless for us, mainly because of the fact that most of the work is done in our net part of the driver. So, as it looks for now, this ULP exercise will be for HFI only. Thanks --N619HKiDy45kBi0v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAliawKwACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKeTFRAAhcslIXE7u0hZTLiEG+dJBVM94LuAZ9v3sg+xAVMT7Ty688XJqqn6vfhb hL9V9wvzCLBf08csVrcERqT3fmwQLznSZ6J4KkB3Kd+j3yzvD9WtHeZMNMPiAlH6 8zdupZFtVLPGN6NgonD7ryZBoDptq4swFcEqXyRJ7go9gQjHW6m1SPx8O1I0zTmt FxX02ikV2TJ/KodojQEkbmwOWb+N+GyTioNDJYIsvZCDS9koLhacX81ktz/7gRK4 kcZ7yu6lnskzovFiZzfFIGOVdfsc1CC0l81dY/BoZ+fAxIk/t6XT3PMpOuJEWnGA GBzYxj1dLV0wKn5HZNkb/vP8R/u68JIEJju4SCaU5QD6ZPSu0vHS7nUjrchUYdAG MQXVT8HfRWuqjle+lFK+ikPvTwGNXzxy5njKxTsV3YgAJ0ZL/5kG3GI96fm3BowL Sd8Ilq/8YlXRCDhbUjwOeP/ueb3fsXr9H/MqWnaQDs+irDBIcR8P47dlqHOtDHGa JI8XxtOtgImt1c/y1/oWkspjw1IPI8SZdRWO6rE7H3HVhONkwbyj0MtasGhcUPTH H580g6Ds7E9aAS+D2t2hfFk621IQlMobdlqxLMF7p8lhA2+OM3tczy60Df0ByJ3+ 9t5mFR/odrNPUF1/AG5VXPp8tEADdUPaCSemD8fv0/fCAWmsJYE= =mrgt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --N619HKiDy45kBi0v-- -- 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