Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-16 Thread Roland Dreier
> I understand your frustration in having to deal with a large amount > of code. If you included all the Mellanox firmware in the mlx4 > driver, it would be huge too. I'm limited in what I can do given > the complexity of the IBTA spec. Sure, I understand that your driver is going to be prett

Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-16 Thread Roland Dreier
> > - mlx4 SR-IOV support. Again, main problem was my lack of time. I > > agree in principle with this stuff, just want to be careful that we > > don't turn the mlx4 driver into an unmaintainable mess of "if > > (sriov) something; else something_else" all over. > Roland, > Y

Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-16 Thread Tziporet Koren
On 12/14/2009 8:37 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: - mlx4 SR-IOV support. Again, main problem was my lack of time. I agree in principle with this stuff, just want to be careful that we don't turn the mlx4 driver into an unmaintainable mess of "if (sriov) something; else something_else"

Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-15 Thread Or Gerlitz
Eli Cohen wrote: - IBoE. In principle I think this is starting to get there. Still want to see better ABI compatibility at least, and also make sure the interface chosen works for both rdmacm and non-rdmacm applications. Based on this, I am going to send a new patch set, a few days

Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-15 Thread Eli Cohen
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:37:40AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Here are a few topics that are not ready in time for the 2.6.33 window > and will need to wait for 2.6.34 at least: > > > - IBoE. In principle I think this is starting to get there. Still >want to see better ABI compatibil

Re: InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-14 Thread Ralph Campbell
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 10:37 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: > - New QLogic qib driver. Needs at least one more iteration of >cleanups; and I have not had time to look at the latest code in >detail to see exactly what cleanups are needed. I am concerned >that QLogic chose to abandon the

InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.33

2009-12-14 Thread Roland Dreier
Since 2.6.32 is already out, it's probably a good time (or at least I shouldn't wait longer!) to talk about 2.6.33 merge plans. Unfortunately I lost pretty much a week and a half after Thanksgiving to the flu, so I'm pretty late and didn't get as much done as I hoped. Anyway, all the pending things