netdev - Re: [RFC 0/2] be2net: Added functionality to support RoCE driver

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Message-ID: <CAL1RGDWqmdpU7U4robRs0J1xHPirW3ScmbycLNpZA--hO47mYg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 7 Mar 2012 11:02:02 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <roland@...estorage.com>
To:	parav.pandit@...lex.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] be2net: Added functionality to support RoCE driver

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:47 AM,  <parav.pandit@...lex.com> wrote:
> From: Parav Pandit <parav.pandit@...lex.com>
>
> This patch is against roland's below Infiniband tree.
> http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git
> Simiilar patch against netdev net-next tree will be made based on this patch.
>
> This patch adds functionality to support RoCE (RDMA over Ethernet) driver.
> - Detecting RoCE supported adapters and creating linked list of them.
> - Enabling 5 more MSIX vectors for RoCE functionality.
> - Calling registered callback functions of the RoCE driver
>  whenever new RoCE capable device is added/removed.
> - Notifying events to RoCE driver when interface is up or down.
> - Provides device specific details to RoCE driver for each roce device.
> - Provides low level mailbox command to be issued by RoCE driver
>  before it can have it own MQ.
>
> Parav Pandit (2):
>  be2net: Added function to issue mailbox cmd on MQ.
>  be2net: Added functionality to support RoCE driver

Great, I'm really excited to be getting another upstream driver.

I would suggest that when the actual RoCE driver is posted, we
merge these 2 prerequisite patches + the driver through my tree,
to avoid the hassle of a dependency between my tree and Dave's
net-next tree.

(Assuming these patches are OK with Dave and everyone else...
they look pretty reasonable to me after a quick read)

When do you expect to post the actual RoCE driver?  If that's
going to be a while, another possibility is to just merge these
patches through net-next for 3.4, although I'm not sure about
how Dave feels about merging all this stuff without seeing what
will actually use it.

Thanks,
  Roland
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