From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next 2/2] net/mlx5: Add FPGA QP error event Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 18:21:05 +0200 Message-ID: <20180530162105.GF27537@lunn.ch> References: <20180530001954.12000-1-saeedm@mellanox.com> <20180530001954.12000-3-saeedm@mellanox.com> <20180530010710.GC30239@lunn.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Saeed Mahameed Cc: Jason Gunthorpe , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Ilan Tayari , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , Leon Romanovsky , Adi Nissim List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 03:14:20PM +0000, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 03:07 +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 05:19:54PM -0700, Saeed Mahameed wrote: > > > From: Ilan Tayari > > > > > > The FPGA QP event fires whenever a QP on the FPGA trasitions > > > to the error state. > > > > FPGA i know, field programmable gate array. Could you offer some clue > > as to what QP means? > > > > Hi Andre, QP "Queue Pair" is well known rdma concept, and widely used > in mlx drivers, it is used as in the driver as a ring buffer to > communicate with the FPGA device. O.K. Thanks. It is hard to get the right balance between assuming people know everything, and know nothing. But you can help teach people these terms i commit messages: The FPGA queue pair event fires whenever a QP on the FPGA transitions to the error state. Andrew