Hi Michael, It will be great help if you could base you patches on existing Roland's tree and share to branch details to pull. Just like Chuck lever does for his nfs-rdma patches?
-Regards Devesh > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Wang [mailto:yun.w...@profitbricks.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:17 PM > To: Devesh Sharma; Roland Dreier; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock; linux- > r...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; h...@dev.mellanox.co.il > Cc: Tom Tucker; Steve Wise; Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Christoph Raisch; Mike > Marciniszyn; Eli Cohen; Faisal Latif; Jack Morgenstein; Or Gerlitz; Haggai > Eran; > Ira Weiny; Tom Talpey; Jason Gunthorpe; Doug Ledford > Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers > > Hi, Devesh > > On 04/21/2015 07:41 AM, Devesh Sharma wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > is there a specific git branch available to pull out all the patches? > > Not yet, we may need the maintainer to tell us which branch could the series > been applied for testing purpose, after we all satisfied :-) > > For now we could 'git am' these patches to 'infiniband.git/for-next' > in order to do testing. > > Regards, > Michael Wang > > > > > -Regards > > Devesh > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma- > >> ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wang > >> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 1:59 PM > >> To: Roland Dreier; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock; > >> linux-r...@vger.kernel.org; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; > >> h...@dev.mellanox.co.il > >> Cc: Tom Tucker; Steve Wise; Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Christoph Raisch; Mike > >> Marciniszyn; Eli Cohen; Faisal Latif; Jack Morgenstein; Or Gerlitz; > >> Haggai Eran; Ira Weiny; Tom Talpey; Jason Gunthorpe; Doug Ledford; > >> Michael Wang > >> Subject: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers > >> > >> > >> Since v4: > >> * Thanks for the comments from Hal, Sean, Tom, Or Gerlitz, Jason, > >> Roland, Ira and Steve :-) Please remind me if anything missed :-P > >> * Fix logical issue inside 3#, 14# > >> * Refine 3#, 4#, 5# with label 'free' > >> * Rework 10# to stop using port 1 when port already assigned > >> > >> There are plenty of lengthy code to check the transport type of IB > >> device, or the link layer type of it's port, but actually we are just > >> speculating whether a particular management/feature is supported by the > device/port. > >> > >> Thus instead of inferring, we should have our own mechanism for IB > >> management capability/protocol/feature checking, several proposals below. > >> > >> This patch set will reform the method of getting transport type, we > >> will now using query_transport() instead of inferring from transport > >> and link layer respectively, also we defined the new transport type > >> to make the concept more reasonable. > >> > >> Mapping List: > >> node-type link-layer old-transport new-transport > >> nes RNIC ETH IWARP IWARP > >> amso1100 RNIC ETH IWARP IWARP > >> cxgb3 RNIC ETH IWARP IWARP > >> cxgb4 RNIC ETH IWARP IWARP > >> usnic USNIC_UDP ETH USNIC_UDP USNIC_UDP > >> ocrdma IB_CA ETH IB IBOE > >> mlx4 IB_CA IB/ETH IB IB/IBOE > >> mlx5 IB_CA IB IB IB > >> ehca IB_CA IB IB IB > >> ipath IB_CA IB IB IB > >> mthca IB_CA IB IB IB > >> qib IB_CA IB IB IB > >> > >> For example: > >> if (transport == IB) && (link-layer == ETH) will now become: > >> if (query_transport() == IBOE) > >> > >> Thus we will be able to get rid of the respective transport and > >> link-layer checking, and it will help us to add new > >> protocol/Technology (like OPA) more easier, also with the introduced > >> management helpers, IB management logical will be more clear and easier > for extending. > >> > >> Highlights: > >> The patch set covered a wide range of IB stuff, thus for those who are > >> familiar with the particular part, your suggestion would be > >> invaluable ;-) > >> > >> Patch 1#~15# included all the logical reform, 16#~25# introduced the > >> management helpers, 26#~27# do clean up. > >> > >> Patches haven't been tested yet, we appreciate if any one who have > >> these > >> HW willing to provide his Tested-by :-) > >> > >> Doug suggested the bitmask mechanism: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux- > >> r...@vger.kernel.org/msg23765.html > >> which could be the plan for future reforming, we prefer that to be > another > >> series which focus on semantic and performance. > >> > >> This patch-set is somewhat 'bloated' now and it may be a good timing > >> for > >> staging, I'd like to suggest we focus on improving existed helpers and > >> push > >> all the further reforms into next series ;-) > >> > >> Proposals: > >> Sean: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux- > >> r...@vger.kernel.org/msg23339.html > >> Doug: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux- > >> r...@vger.kernel.org/msg23418.html > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux- > >> r...@vger.kernel.org/msg23765.html > >> Jason: > >> https://www.mail-archive.com/linux- > >> r...@vger.kernel.org/msg23425.html > >> > >> Michael Wang (27): > >> IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport() > >> IB/Verbs: Implement raw management helpers > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core mad/agent/user_mad > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core cm > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core sa_query > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core multicast > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp ipoib > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp xprtrdma > >> IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core verbs/uverbs_cmd/sysfs > >> IB/Verbs: Reform cm related part in IB-core cma/ucm > >> IB/Verbs: Reform route related part in IB-core cma > >> IB/Verbs: Reform mcast related part in IB-core cma > >> IB/Verbs: Reserve legacy transport type in 'dev_addr' > >> IB/Verbs: Reform cma_acquire_dev() > >> IB/Verbs: Reform rest part in IB-core cma > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mad() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_smi() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_cm() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_iw_cm() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_sa() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mcast() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ipoib() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_read_multi_sge() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_af_ib() > >> IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_eth_ah() > >> IB/Verbs: Clean up rdma_ib_or_iboe() > >> IB/Verbs: Cleanup rdma_node_get_transport() > >> > >> --- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/agent.c | 4 > >> drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c | 26 +- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 328 > >> ++++++++++++--------------- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 1 > >> drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c | 51 ++-- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c | 18 - > >> drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c | 41 +-- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c | 8 > >> drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c | 5 > >> drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c | 27 -- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c | 32 +- > >> drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c | 6 > >> drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c | 33 -- > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/provider.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_hca.c | 6 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_iverbs.h | 3 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c | 1 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c | 10 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c | 6 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c | 1 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c | 6 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.h | 3 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_verbs.c | 7 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c | 1 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c | 6 > >> drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.h | 2 > >> drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c | 17 - > >> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 204 +++++++++++++++- > >> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c | 6 > >> net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c | 51 +--- > >> 35 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 368 deletions(-) > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe from 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