netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 00/20] Introduce mlx5 DEVX interface

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 19:46:57 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Matan Barak <matanb@...lanox.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next v2 00/20] Introduce mlx5 DEVX interface

On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 07:59:30AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 04:05:04PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 12:59:46PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> >
> > > Leon Romanovsky (2):
> > >   drm/i915: Move u64-to-ptr helpers to general header
> > >   kernel.h: Reuse u64_to_ptr macro to cast __user pointers
> >
> > I dropped these since they are not needed by this series when using a
> > union.
>
> No problem, it was my idea to reuse existing macro, before it was
> hard-coded implementation, but union makes it cleaner.
>
> >
> > > Matan Barak (5):
> > >   IB/uverbs: Export uverbs idr and fd types
> > >   IB/uverbs: Add PTR_IN attributes that are allocated/copied
> > >     automatically
> >
> > Revised this one, as noted
>
> Thanks
>
> >
> > >   IB/uverbs: Add a macro to define a type with no kernel known size
> > >   IB/uverbs: Allow an empty namespace in ioctl() framework
> > >   IB/uverbs: Refactor uverbs_finalize_objects
> >
> > I put the above in a branch and can apply them if you ack my revisions..
> >
>
> Except the line "return (void *)attr;", which should be "return ERR_CAST(attr);"
> everything looks reasonable. I didn't test it, but I'm not worried, we will have
> enough time to fix if needed.
>
> > >   net/mlx5_core: Prevent warns in dmesg upon firmware commands
> > >   IB/core: Improve uverbs_cleanup_ucontext algorithm
> >
> > I dropped these two (they are linked), need comments addressed and
> > resent.
>
> They are linked only logically, the second patch will trigger warning
> which is suppressed by first patch. So actually mlx5-net branch will have
> only first patch "net/mlx5_core: Prevent warns in dmesg upon firmware commands"
> and you will apply "IB/core: Improve uverbs_cleanup_ucontext algorithm" in
> your rdma-next.
>
> >
> > > Yishai Hadas (13):
> > >   net/mlx5: Expose DEVX ifc structures
> > >   IB/mlx5: Introduce DEVX
> > >   IB/core: Introduce DECLARE_UVERBS_GLOBAL_METHODS
> > >   IB: Expose ib_ucontext from a given ib_uverbs_file
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add support for DEVX general command
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add obj create and destroy functionality
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add DEVX support for modify and query commands
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add support for DEVX query UAR
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add DEVX support for memory registration
> > >   IB/mlx5: Add DEVX query EQN support
> > >   IB/mlx5: Expose DEVX tree
> >
> > I put these in a branch also and can apply them, but I need the first
> > two patches in the mlx5 core branch first please, thanks.
> >
> > Since this requires so many core patches I think I prefer to merge the
> > mlx core branch then apply rather merge a branch.
>
> So to summarize, I'm applying those three patches to mlx5-next:
>  * net/mlx5_core: Prevent warns in dmesg upon firmware commands
>  * net/mlx5: Expose DEVX ifc structures
>  * IB/mlx5: Introduce DEVX

Updated mlx5-next with two patches and squashed ifc and commands bits
from third commit into second one.

>
> And resend:
>  * IB/core: Improve uverbs_cleanup_ucontext algorithm
>

Resent.

> Thanks
>
> >
> > Jason



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