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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 15:16:57 +0200
From: Jan Karcher <jaka@...ux.ibm.com>
To: Liu Jian <liujian56@...wei.com>, linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org,
linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: jgg@...pe.ca, leon@...nel.org, zyjzyj2000@...il.com, wenjia@...ux.ibm.com,
alibuda@...ux.alibaba.com, tonylu@...ux.alibaba.com,
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kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Make SMC-R can work with rxe devices
On 09/08/2024 10:31, Liu Jian wrote:
> Make SMC-R can work with rxe devices. This allows us to easily test and
> learn the SMC-R protocol without relying on a physical RoCE NIC.
Hi Liu,
sorry for taking quite some time to answer.
Looking into this i cannot accept this series at the given point of time.
FWIU, RXE is mainly for testing and development and i agree that it
would be a nice thing to have for SMC-R.
The problem is that there is no clean layer for different RoCE devices
currently. Adding RXE to it works but isn't clean.
Also we have no way to do a "test" build which would have such a device
supported and a "prod" build which would not support it.
Please give us time to investigate how to solve this in a neat way
without building up to much technical debt.
Thanks for your contribution and making us aware of this area of improvment.
- Jan
>
> Liu Jian (4):
> rdma/device: export ib_device_get_netdev()
> net/smc: use ib_device_get_netdev() helper to get netdev info
> net/smc: fix one NULL pointer dereference in smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync()
> RDMA/rxe: Set queue pair cur_qp_state when being queried
>
> drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h | 3 ---
> drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 1 +
> drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c | 2 ++
> include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 2 ++
> net/smc/smc_ib.c | 10 +++++-----
> net/smc/smc_pnet.c | 6 +-----
> 6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>
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