On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 11:55:42PM +0000, Davis, Arlin R wrote: >> Currently, the vmw_pvrdma driver is included as a tech preview. It still >> requires its userspace component >> (libvmw_pvrdma) from rdma-core. It would be part of rdma-core-13 release I >> think. If OFED decides to use >> rdma-core-12 release, we would need some way to add the PVRDMA library >> as well (maybe a tech preview?). >> Not sure, but other recently added vendors to the linux kernel (qedr) can run >> into a similar issue. > > Sorry, we didn't do a good job discussing the complete process for the new > rdma-core inclusion into OFED. Similar to the kernel compat-rdma code we need > a way to pull in the latest upstream released packages and then allow patches > to be pulled in as needed for OFED. So, in this case we should be pulling the > tested and validated rdma-core-12 base and then going from there. >
Totally understand that only release rdma-core tags should be pulled into OFED. > One way to do this is to maybe have Vlad maintain an rdma-core git tree on > OFA website for OFED packaging. He would pull in the last official release of > rdma-core which is currently tagged as "rdma-core-12". Provider maintainers > can clone this git tree, backport any rdma-core-master changes, include bug > fixes, and then ask Vlad to pull from their "for-vlad" or whatever branch you > like. The OFED packaging process would pull from this local rdma-core git > tree instead of directly from git-hub.com. > > Does this make sense? Would this work for provider maintainers or is there a > better way? I dont mind this approach, though it seems like more work for Vlad. You would have to also take into consideration that a new rdma-core release happens (or is supposed to happen) in conjunction with a kernel release. That would depend on whether you want to update the rdma-core included in OFED. Maybe in the future you could take just the rdma-core released for kernel and then backport stuff to it? I dont think there was one made for 4.8 though. > > Regards, > > Arlin > > > > _______________________________________________ ewg mailing list ewg@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/mailman/listinfo/ewg
