Reserve bits 26-31 for internal use by low-level drivers. Two such bits are used in the mlx4 driver SRIOV IB implementation.
These enum additions guarantee that the core layer will never use these bits, so that low level drivers may safely make use of them. Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <ja...@dev.mellanox.co.il> --- include/rdma/ib_verbs.h | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h index 07996af..46bc045 100644 --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h @@ -614,6 +614,9 @@ enum ib_qp_type { enum ib_qp_create_flags { IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO = 1 << 0, IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK = 1 << 1, + /* reserve bits 26-31 for low level drivers' internal use */ + IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_START = 1 << 26, + IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_END = 1 << 31, }; struct ib_qp_init_attr { -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html