Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-09 Thread Pradeep Satyanarayana
Roland Dreier wrote: > > Roland, I submitted an updated patch incorporating some of Sean's comments > within > > a day or two. Rest of comments pertained to restructuring the code and > adding > > some additional module parameters. > > > > This would require more discussions since some of

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-09 Thread Sean Hefty
Can you give a link to your current final version of the patch? Sean, what's your opinion of where we stand? Let me look back over the last version that was sent and reply back later today or tomorrow. Several of my initial comments were on code structure. Since module parameters create a

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-09 Thread Roland Dreier
> Roland, I submitted an updated patch incorporating some of Sean's comments > within > a day or two. Rest of comments pertained to restructuring the code and > adding > some additional module parameters. > > This would require more discussions since some of these had been already > di

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-09 Thread Steve Wise
Roland Dreier wrote: > No mention about the iwarp port space issue? I don't think we're at a stage where I'm prepared to merge something-- we all agree the latest patch has serious drawbacks, and it commits us to a suboptimal interface that is userspace-visible. Fair enough. > I'm at a

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-08 Thread Roland Dreier
> No mention about the iwarp port space issue? I don't think we're at a stage where I'm prepared to merge something-- we all agree the latest patch has serious drawbacks, and it commits us to a suboptimal interface that is userspace-visible. > I'm at a loss as to how to proceed. Could we try t

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-08 Thread Roland Dreier
> >  - XRC.  Given the length of the backlog above and the fact that a > >    first draft of this code has not been posted yet, I don't see any > >    way that we could have something this major ready in time. > > > I posted the first draft patch set to the OpenFabrics list on September 18:

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-07 Thread Jack Morgenstein
On Saturday 06 October 2007 01:18, Roland Dreier wrote: >  - XRC.  Given the length of the backlog above and the fact that a >    first draft of this code has not been posted yet, I don't see any >    way that we could have something this major ready in time. > I posted the first draft patch set t

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-07 Thread Steve Wise
No mention about the iwarp port space issue? Here is the status of the current proposed patch: - needs another round of changes based on Sean's feedback - Arkady raised issues about the pain this puts on admins - it forces services like nfs-rdma, which already separates the nfs-rdma server by

Re: [ofa-general] Updated InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

2007-10-06 Thread Pradeep Satyanarayana
> > ULPs: > > - Pradeep's IPoIB CM support for devices that don't have SRQs. Sean >started reviewing but I didn't see any updated patches. > Roland, I submitted an updated patch incorporating some of Sean's comments within a day or two. Rest of comments pertained to restructuring the cod