linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] SIF related verbs patches

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 13:30:15 -0700
From:   Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com>
To:     Knut Omang <knut.omang@...cle.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] SIF related verbs patches

Hi Knut,

On 9/16/2016 11:31 AM, Knut Omang wrote:
> This patch set contains the changes and bug fixes necessary
> to support Oracle's new Infiniband HCA (SIF) from the kernel side.
>
> The exception is patch 3 which is a useful consolidation and simplification
> made possible by patch 2 and the replacement of the dma_attr type with
> a plain bitmask.
>
> The changes to other rdma drivers are just trivial consequences of
> the extended umem_get and create_ah calls and should hopefully be
> uncontroversial.
>
> Patches 4-7 are related to corresponding libibverbs patches.
> These make minor changes (fixing end alignment) to some uverbs
> data structures, but these are carefully made to be backward
> binary compatible between user and kernel for existing provider
> libraries.
>
You have missed SOBs on few patches accidentally. You might want to
fix that for next post :-)

regards,
Santosh