netdev - Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/2] Create IPoIB QP with specific QP number

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Message-ID: <20200702175541.GA721759@nvidia.com>
Date:   Thu, 2 Jul 2020 14:55:41 -0300
From:   Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
CC:     Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        Feras Daoud <ferasda@...lanox.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
        Michael Guralnik <michaelgur@...lanox.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/2] Create IPoIB QP with specific QP number

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 02:01:03PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 
> >From Michael,
> 
> This series handles IPoIB child interface creation with setting
> interface's HW address.
> 
> In current implementation, lladdr requested by user is ignored and
> overwritten. Child interface gets the same GID as the parent interface
> and a QP number which is assigned by the underlying drivers.
> 
> In this series we fix this behavior so that user's requested address is
> assigned to the newly created interface.
> 
> As specific QP number request is not supported for all vendors, QP
> number requested by user will still be overwritten when this is not
> supported.
> 
> Behavior of creation of child interfaces through the sysfs mechanism or
> without specifying a requested address, stays the same.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michael Guralnik (2):
>   net/mlx5: Enable QP number request when creating IPoIB underlay QP
>   RDMA/ipoib: Handle user-supplied address when creating child

Applied to for-next, thanks

Jason