On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:09:35AM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:26:35PM +, Liran Liss wrote:
> From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
>
> ChangeLog:
> =
> v2 => v3:
> a)
On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:26:35PM +, Liran Liss wrote:
> > From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
>
> >
> > ChangeLog:
> > =
> > v2 => v3:
> > a) Introduce and adopt generic RDMA netdev interface
> From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
>
> ChangeLog:
> =
> v2 => v3:
> a) Introduce and adopt generic RDMA netdev interface including,
> - having bottom hfi1 driver directly interfacing with
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 04:54:16PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:58:50PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> >On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> >>This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand
> >>device/protocol.
> >
>
> > Even reading your statement twice did not make me any wiser.
> > You mentioned "better hardware resource usage". Compared to what? Is
> that
> > perhaps compared to IPoIB? Since Ethernet frames have an extra
> header and
> > are larger than IPoIB frames, how can larger frames result in better
>
> On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 16:54 -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:58:50PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > > > This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand
> device/protocol.
> >
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:00:05PM +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > I didn't read patches yet, and prefer to ask it in advance. Does this
> > new ULP work with all
> > drivers/infiniband/hw/* devices as it is expected from ULP?
>
> Like the way ipoib or srp work with all hw devices? What is the real
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:43:03PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:00:05PM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > > I didn't read patches yet, and prefer to ask it in advance. Does this
> > > new ULP work with all
> > > drivers/infiniband/hw/* devices as it is expected
On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 16:54 -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:58:50PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> > On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> > > This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand
> > > device/protocol.
> >
> >
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 09:58:50PM +, Bart Van Assche wrote:
On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand device/protocol.
That's more than clear from the cover letter. In my opinion the cover letter
should explain
On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 21:44 +, Hefty, Sean wrote:
> This is Ethernet - not IP - encapsulation over a non-InfiniBand
> device/protocol.
That's more than clear from the cover letter. In my opinion the cover letter
should explain why it is considered useful to have such a driver upstream
and
> This may have been stated before, but what is missing from this
> description
> is an explanation of why accepting an Ethernet over RDMA driver in the
> upstream kernel is considered useful. We already have an IPoIB driver,
> so
> why to add another driver to the kernel tree for communicating IP
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:00:05PM -0800, Hefty, Sean wrote:
I didn't read patches yet, and prefer to ask it in advance. Does this
new ULP work with all
drivers/infiniband/hw/* devices as it is expected from ULP?
Like the way ipoib or srp work with all hw devices? What is the real point of
On Tue, 2017-02-07 at 12:22 -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> Intel Omni-Path Host Fabric Interface (HFI) Virtual Network Interface
> Controller (VNIC) feature supports Ethernet functionality over Omni-Path
> fabric by encapsulating the Ethernet packets between HFI nodes.
This may have
> I didn't read patches yet, and prefer to ask it in advance. Does this
> new ULP work with all
> drivers/infiniband/hw/* devices as it is expected from ULP?
Like the way ipoib or srp work with all hw devices? What is the real point of
this question?
On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 12:22:59PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> ChangeLog:
> =
> v2 => v3:
> a) Introduce and adopt generic RDMA netdev interface including,
> - having bottom hfi1 driver directly interfacing with netstack.
> - optimizing interface between hfi_vnic
ChangeLog:
=
v2 => v3:
a) Introduce and adopt generic RDMA netdev interface including,
- having bottom hfi1 driver directly interfacing with netstack.
- optimizing interface between hfi_vnic and hfi1 driver.
b) Remove bitfield usage.
c) Move hfi_vnic driver to
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