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Message-ID: <EE7902D3F51F404C82415C4803930ACD5DC44287@CMEXMB1.ad.emulex.com>
Date:	Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:03:46 +0000
From:	Devesh Sharma <Devesh.Sharma@...lex.Com>
To:	Michael Wang <yun.wang@...fitbricks.com>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@...el.com>,
	Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@...il.com>,
	"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"hal@....mellanox.co.il" <hal@....mellanox.co.il>
CC:	Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>,
	Hoang-Nam Nguyen <hnguyen@...ibm.com>,
	Christoph Raisch <raisch@...ibm.com>,
	Mike Marciniszyn <infinipath@...el.com>,
	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.com>,
	Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@...el.com>,
	Jack Morgenstein <jackm@....mellanox.co.il>,
	"Or Gerlitz" <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
	Haggai Eran <haggaie@...lanox.com>,
	"Ira Weiny" <ira.weiny@...el.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
	Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers

Hi Michael,

It will be great help if you could base you patches on existing Roland's tree and share to branch details to pull. 
Just like Chuck lever does for his nfs-rdma patches?

-Regards
Devesh

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Wang [mailto:yun.wang@...fitbricks.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 1:17 PM
> To: Devesh Sharma; Roland Dreier; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock; linux-
> rdma@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org; hal@....mellanox.co.il
> Cc: Tom Tucker; Steve Wise; Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Christoph Raisch; Mike
> Marciniszyn; Eli Cohen; Faisal Latif; Jack Morgenstein; Or Gerlitz; Haggai Eran;
> Ira Weiny; Tom Talpey; Jason Gunthorpe; Doug Ledford
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers
> 
> Hi, Devesh
> 
> On 04/21/2015 07:41 AM, Devesh Sharma wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> >
> > is there a specific git branch available to pull out all the patches?
> 
> Not yet, we may need the maintainer to tell us which branch could the series
> been applied for testing purpose, after we all satisfied :-)
> 
> For now we could 'git am' these patches to 'infiniband.git/for-next'
> in order to do testing.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael Wang
> 
> >
> > -Regards
> > Devesh
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: linux-rdma-owner@...r.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
> >> owner@...r.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Michael Wang
> >> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2015 1:59 PM
> >> To: Roland Dreier; Sean Hefty; Hal Rosenstock;
> >> linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> >> hal@....mellanox.co.il
> >> Cc: Tom Tucker; Steve Wise; Hoang-Nam Nguyen; Christoph Raisch; Mike
> >> Marciniszyn; Eli Cohen; Faisal Latif; Jack Morgenstein; Or Gerlitz;
> >> Haggai Eran; Ira Weiny; Tom Talpey; Jason Gunthorpe; Doug Ledford;
> >> Michael Wang
> >> Subject: [PATCH v5 00/27] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers
> >>
> >>
> >> Since v4:
> >>   * Thanks for the comments from Hal, Sean, Tom, Or Gerlitz, Jason,
> >>     Roland, Ira and Steve :-) Please remind me if anything missed :-P
> >>   * Fix logical issue inside 3#, 14#
> >>   * Refine 3#, 4#, 5# with label 'free'
> >>   * Rework 10# to stop using port 1 when port already assigned
> >>
> >> There are plenty of lengthy code to check the transport type of IB
> >> device, or the link layer type of it's port, but actually we are just
> >> speculating whether a particular management/feature is supported by the
> device/port.
> >>
> >> Thus instead of inferring, we should have our own mechanism for IB
> >> management capability/protocol/feature checking, several proposals below.
> >>
> >> This patch set will reform the method of getting transport type, we
> >> will now using query_transport() instead of inferring from transport
> >> and link layer respectively, also we defined the new transport type
> >> to make the concept more reasonable.
> >>
> >> Mapping List:
> >> 		node-type	link-layer	old-transport	new-transport
> >> nes		RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> >> amso1100	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> >> cxgb3   	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> >> cxgb4   	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> >> usnic   	USNIC_UDP	ETH		USNIC_UDP	USNIC_UDP
> >> ocrdma  	IB_CA		ETH		IB		IBOE
> >> mlx4    	IB_CA		IB/ETH		IB		IB/IBOE
> >> mlx5    	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> >> ehca    	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> >> ipath   	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> >> mthca   	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> >> qib     	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> >>
> >> For example:
> >> 	if (transport == IB) && (link-layer == ETH) will now become:
> >> 	if (query_transport() == IBOE)
> >>
> >> Thus we will be able to get rid of the respective transport and
> >> link-layer checking, and it will help us to add new
> >> protocol/Technology (like OPA) more easier, also with the introduced
> >> management helpers, IB management logical will be more clear and easier
> for extending.
> >>
> >> Highlights:
> >>     The patch set covered a wide range of IB stuff, thus for those who are
> >>     familiar with the particular part, your suggestion would be
> >> invaluable ;-)
> >>
> >>     Patch 1#~15# included all the logical reform, 16#~25# introduced the
> >>     management helpers, 26#~27# do clean up.
> >>
> >>     Patches haven't been tested yet, we appreciate if any one who have these
> >>     HW willing to provide his Tested-by :-)
> >>
> >>     Doug suggested the bitmask mechanism:
> >> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-
> >> rdma@...r.kernel.org/msg23765.html
> >>     which could be the plan for future reforming, we prefer that to be
> another
> >>     series which focus on semantic and performance.
> >>
> >>     This patch-set is somewhat 'bloated' now and it may be a good timing for
> >>     staging, I'd like to suggest we focus on improving existed helpers and push
> >>     all the further reforms into next series ;-)
> >>
> >> Proposals:
> >>     Sean:
> >> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-
> >> rdma@...r.kernel.org/msg23339.html
> >>     Doug:
> >> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-
> >> rdma@...r.kernel.org/msg23418.html
> >> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-
> >> rdma@...r.kernel.org/msg23765.html
> >>     Jason:
> >> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-
> >> rdma@...r.kernel.org/msg23425.html
> >>
> >> Michael Wang (27):
> >>     IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Implement raw management helpers
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core mad/agent/user_mad
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core cm
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core sa_query
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core multicast
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp ipoib
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp xprtrdma
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core verbs/uverbs_cmd/sysfs
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform cm related part in IB-core cma/ucm
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform route related part in IB-core cma
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform mcast related part in IB-core cma
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reserve legacy transport type in 'dev_addr'
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform cma_acquire_dev()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Reform rest part in IB-core cma
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mad()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_smi()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_cm()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_iw_cm()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_sa()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mcast()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ipoib()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_read_multi_sge()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_af_ib()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_eth_ah()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Clean up rdma_ib_or_iboe()
> >>     IB/Verbs: Cleanup rdma_node_get_transport()
> >>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/agent.c              |    4
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c                 |   26 +-
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c                |  328 ++++++++++++---------------
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/device.c             |    1
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c                |   51 ++--
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c          |   18 -
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c           |   41 +--
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/sysfs.c              |    8
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c                |    5
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c               |   27 --
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c           |   32 +-
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_cmd.c         |    6
> >>  drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c              |   33 --
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c  |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/provider.c       |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_hca.c        |    6
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_iverbs.h     |    3
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c       |    1
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c    |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c            |   10
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c            |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c        |    6
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c   |    1
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c  |    6
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.h  |    3
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_verbs.c        |    7
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c  |    1
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c |    6
> >>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.h |    2
> >>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c    |   17 -
> >>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                      |  204 +++++++++++++++-
> >>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c      |    6
> >>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c     |   51 +---
> >>  35 files changed, 584 insertions(+), 368 deletions(-)
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