netdev - Re: [RFC v1 for accelerated IPoIB 25/25] mlx5_ib: skeleton for mlx5_ib to support ipoib

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2017 18:37:16 +0200
From:   Erez Shitrit <erezsh@....mellanox.co.il>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Cc:     Erez Shitrit <erezsh@...lanox.com>,
        Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, valex@...lanox.com,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>, saedm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [RFC v1 for accelerated IPoIB 25/25] mlx5_ib: skeleton for
 mlx5_ib to support ipoib_ops

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 04:53:24PM +0200, Erez Shitrit wrote:
>
>> > Why isn't this stuff in open/close?
>>
>> According to ipoib control flows, there is a different between
>> open/close to init/cleanup for example, in open/close the driver
>> doesn't destroy hw resources, just change the state, it destroys
>> them in cleanup.
>
> So put it in mlx5_alloc_rdma_netdev then?
>
> Or ndo.init as was suggested?

I can do that, as i said to your previous suggestion, will add the
ib_device to the rdma_netdev and will use the ndo.init

>
> Or in the void (*setup)(struct net_device *)
>
>> >> +     param.size_base_priv = sizeof(struct ipoib_rdma_netdev);
>> >
>> > This is really weird, the code in mlx5i_create_netdev calls
>> > ipoib_dev_priv so it must assume the struct is a ipoib_rdma_netdev.
>>
>> It is the same attitude as in the vnic/hfi
>> (https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9587815/)
>
> Not quite, they call alloc_netdev_mqs directly, here indirects through
> mlx5i_create_netdev which assumes a priv layout, Just drop
> param.size_base_priv and put that same calculation in
> mlx5i_create_netdev..

We are sharing 2 drivers as the low level driver, anyway i will find
the way to do that.

>
> Jason
>