netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Dump and fill MKEY

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 13:29:48 -0600
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Guy Levi <guyle@...lanox.com>,
        Yishai Hadas <yishaih@...lanox.com>,
        Yonatan Cohen <yonatanc@...lanox.com>,
        Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>,
        linux-netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Dump and fill MKEY

On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 09:54:59PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 11:47:39AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 08:47:21AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> > >
> > > MLX5 IB HCA offers the memory key, dump_fill_mkey to increase
> > > performance, when used in a send or receive operations.
> > >
> > > It is used to force local HCA operations to skip the PCI bus access,
> > > while keeping track of the processed length in the ibv_sge handling.
> > >
> > > In this three patch series, we expose various bits in our HW
> > > spec file (mlx5_ifc.h), move unneeded for mlx5_core FW command and
> > > export such memory key to user space thought our mlx5-abi header file.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > This looks fine, can you send a pull request off the mlx5 branch
> > please?
> 
> Updated mlx5-next with first two commits,
> b183ee27f5fb net/mlx5: Add hardware definitions for dump_fill_mkey
> 4d4fb5dc988a net/mlx5: Limit scope of dump_fill_mkey function

Okay, applied to for-next, with the missing 'if (err)' fixed.

Thanks,
Jason