On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 04:06:40AM +0000, Parav Pandit wrote:
Hi,
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From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2:23 PM
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Cc: linux-r...@vger.kernel.org; netdev@vger.kernel.org;
dennis.dalessan...@intel.com; ira.we...@intel.com; Niranjana
Vishwanathapura <niranjana.vishwanathap...@intel.com>; Andrzej
Kacprowski <andrzej.kacprow...@intel.com>
Subject: [RFC v3 09/11] IB/hfi1: HFI_VNIC RDMA netdev support
Add support to create and free HFI_VNIC rdma netdev devices.
Implement netstack interface functionality including xmit_skb, receive side
NAPI etc. Also implement rdma netdev control functions.
All code in this particular patch belong to netdev VNIC ULP driver.
There is nothing much that appears specific to IB/RDMA that makes
drivers/infiniband/hw as better place to be.
It has netdev tx, rx, napi, stats in this patch.
If VNIC is a ULP than most of the VNIC specific code should reside in the ULP
directory or drivers/net/ethernet ?
This patch implements HW specific portion of VNIC netdev. As it turnes out HW
queue spefific netstack interfacing (like NAPI, xmit_skb, Tx queue throttling
etc) are specific to HW implementation of the queues. Netstack APIs are
designed for that. Hence they belong in HW driver here and not in ULP.
The HFI_VNIC ULP, implements control plane operatings by tapping into control
operations (open, close etc and encapsulation as specified by control plane).
Niranjana
