Re: [ewg] Re: [PATCH 2.6.31] ehca: Tolerate dynamic memory operations and huge pages

2009-06-17 Thread Alexander Schmidt
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:10:39 -0700 Roland Dreier rdre...@cisco.com wrote: Yeah, the notifier code remains untouched as we still do not allow dynamic memory operations _while_ our module is loaded. The patch allows the driver to cope with DMEM operations that happened before the

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 3/9] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-06-17 Thread Eli Cohen
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Should ib_post_send_mad return some error on QP0 sends on RDMAoE ports ? You can't send anything over QP0 because it is not created and so there are no data structs corresponding to it. What QP1 sends are allowed ? Basically, all

Re: [ewg] RE: [ofa-general] [PATCH 4/9] ib_core: Add RDMAoE SA support

2009-06-17 Thread Eli Cohen
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 10:27:33AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: + +w-member-multicast.rec.qkey = cpu_to_be32(0xc2c); How can a user control this? An app needs the same qkey for unicast traffic. In RDMAoE, the qkey has a fixed well-known value, which will be returned both by multicast and

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/9] RDMAoE - RDMA over Ethernety

2009-06-17 Thread Eli Cohen
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:16:28AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: Hey Eli, Does this series implement UD/multicast support? I didn't see it with a quick perusal of the patches. Hi Steve, yes UD multicast is supported. Note that in this version of the pathces I use the broadcast MAC address (all

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 3/9] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-06-17 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Eli Cohene...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Should ib_post_send_mad return some error on QP0 sends on RDMAoE ports ? You can't send anything over QP0 because it is not created and so there are no data

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 3/9] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-06-17 Thread Eli Cohen
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:14:56AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Eli Cohene...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Should ib_post_send_mad return some error on QP0 sends on RDMAoE ports ? You can't send

Re: [ewg] [PATCH 3/9] ib_core: RDMAoE support only QP1

2009-06-17 Thread Hal Rosenstock
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Eli Cohene...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 07:14:56AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Eli Cohene...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:26:42PM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: Should

[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Liran Liss
Why not just use IP to MAC calls? Or use the MAC as the GUID? We do use standard OS services to map the IP addresses (that were encoded in the GID) to MACs. GIDs encode IP addresses rather than MACs to enable users to use the node names that they are used to. Specifically, we will feed in all

RE: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last

2009-06-17 Thread Todd Rimmer
From: Sasha Khapyorsky [mailto:sashakv...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sasha Khapyorsky Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 11:32 AM To: Todd Rimmer Cc: Tziporet Koren; ewg@lists.openfabrics.org Subject: Re: [ewg] RE: OFED libraries - on the web at last On 08:14 Wed 17 Jun , Todd Rimmer wrote:

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Roland Dreier
Hum, This is a very tricky subject. Co-mingling the IB GID address space and the IPv6 address space like this is not really something that was envisioned from the IBA side. Doesn't the IB spec say that an IB GID *is* an IPv6 address? So in theory it should be OK; however I don't think in

[ewg] RE: [ofa-general] [PATCH 0/9] RDMAoE - RDMA over Ethernet

2009-06-17 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Eli Cohen wrote, RDMA over Ethernet (RDMAoE) allows running the IB transport protocol over Ethernet, providing IB capabilities for Ethernet fabrics. The packets are standard Ethernet frames with an Ethertype, an IB GRH, unmodified IB transport headers and payload. HCA RDMAoE ports are no

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:20:26AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: Hum, This is a very tricky subject. Co-mingling the IB GID address space and the IPv6 address space like this is not really something that was envisioned from the IBA side. Doesn't the IB spec say that an IB GID *is* an

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Roland Dreier
It is like an IPv6 address but it was expressly envisioned to be a seperate space. The IBA authors copied many of the conventions from IPv6 for numbering this new space, like link local, and multicast prefixes, but it was not intended to be co-mingled. Well (I've quoted this many times):

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:38:43AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: It is like an IPv6 address but it was expressly envisioned to be a seperate space. The IBA authors copied many of the conventions from IPv6 for numbering this new space, like link local, and multicast prefixes, but it was

[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2/9] ib_core: kernel API for GID --MAC translations

2009-06-17 Thread Roland Dreier
Hmm, murky indeed. Your point about IGMPv6 is well made. The problem is that IB GRHs are not IPv6 headers and have different numerology for the Next Header field. Ie in IPv6 Next Header 0x1B is RFC 908, while in GRH it is a BTH. Labeling GRHs with an IPv6 ethertype is fundamentally

[ewg] [GIT PULL - ofed-1.5] cxgb3 RHEL5.2 backports

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Wise
Hey Vlad, Please pull from: ssh://v...@sofa.openfabrics.org/~swise/scm/ofed_kernel.git ofed_1_5 This adds RHEL5.2 backports for cxgb3. Thanks, Steve. --- commit 9167dcdbc40252562fd826acc0598853456deafc Author: Steve Wise sw...@opengridcomputing.com Date: Wed Jun 17 19:16:31 2009 -0500