RE: [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module

["Wan, Kaike" <kaike.wan@intel.com>]

> From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@cornelisnetworks.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2021 1:21 PM
> To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>; Rimmer, Todd
> <todd.rimmer@intel.com>; Wan, Kaike <kaike.wan@intel.com>;
> dledford@redhat.com; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module
> 
> On 3/21/2021 12:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> >> On 3/21/2021 4:56 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:39:46PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote:
> >>>> On 3/19/2021 6:57 PM, Rimmer, Todd wrote:
> >>>>>>> [Wan, Kaike] Incorrect. The rv module works with hfi1.
> >>>
> >>> <...>
> >>>
> >>
> >>> 2. Find another vendor that jumps on this RV bandwagon.
> >>
> >> That's not a valid argument. Clearly this works over multiple vendors HW.
> >
> > At a certain point we have to decide if this is a generic code of some
> > kind or a driver-specific thing like HFI has.
> >
> > There are also obvious technial problems designing it as a ULP, so it
> > is a very important question to answer. If it will only ever be used
> > by one Intel ethernet chip then maybe it isn't really generic code.
> 
> Todd/Kaike, is there something in here that is specific to the Intel ethernet
> chip?
[Wan, Kaike] No. The code is generic to Verbs/ROCE devices.