Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-04-01 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:43 AM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: [...] I'd really rather spend my time on something actually useful like cleaning up softroce. Hi Roland, Were you referring to the code that was posted here few years ago, or you're working on something new? two comments

RE: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-10 Thread Devesh Sharma
; Martin K. Petersen; target-devel; Sagi Grimberg; linux-kernel Subject: Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans Sure, no problem. Do you have a git tree with the latest versions of all the changes you want for 3.15 in a branch? That would be helpful as I catch up on applying things, so that I don't

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-07 Thread Roland Dreier
; linux-rdma; Martin K. Petersen; target-devel; Sagi Grimberg; linux-kernel Subject: Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 07:18 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: That all said, do you have

RE: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-06 Thread Devesh Sharma
...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas A. Bellinger Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2014 12:34 AM To: Roland Dreier Cc: Or Gerlitz; Hefty Sean; linux-rdma; Martin K. Petersen; target-devel; Sagi Grimberg; linux-kernel Subject: Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 07:18 -0800, Roland Dreier

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2014-02-06 at 16:04 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Can you give us an estimate of when you'll have some time to give feedback on the outstanding patches..? I hope to get to it in the next few weeks.

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-05 Thread Roland Dreier
On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: That all said, do you have an objection wrt taking this bits through target-pending..? Given the dependencies involved, that would seem the most logical path to take. Perhaps not surprisingly, I would prefer to

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-05 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 05/03/2014 17:18, Roland Dreier wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: That all said, do you have an objection wrt taking this bits through target-pending..? Given the dependencies involved, that would seem the most logical path to take.

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-03-05 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 07:18 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: That all said, do you have an objection wrt taking this bits through target-pending..? Given the dependencies involved, that would seem the most

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-02-25 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Can you give us an estimate of when you'll have some time to give feedback on the outstanding patches..? I hope to get to it in the next

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-02-06 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hi Roland, On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 23:27 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Roland Co, On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 16:43 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. We

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-02-06 Thread Roland Dreier
On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:02 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: Can you give us an estimate of when you'll have some time to give feedback on the outstanding patches..? I hope to get to it in the next few weeks. - R. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 29/01/2014 19:56, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 01/29/14 16:06, Sagi Grimberg wrote: Didn't understand why should it matter where the copy is done (iser/block)? In the Linux kernel community it is considered important to avoid code duplication. Hence the proposal to keep code that copies data

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-30 Thread Bart Van Assche
On 01/30/14 09:19, Or Gerlitz wrote: On 29/01/2014 19:56, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 01/29/14 16:06, Sagi Grimberg wrote: Didn't understand why should it matter where the copy is done (iser/block)? In the Linux kernel community it is considered important to avoid code duplication. Hence the

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-30 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 30/01/2014 12:07, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 01/30/14 09:19, Or Gerlitz wrote: Thanks for narrowing this down, I see your point, however the solution I propose if to remove this copy altogether... for those rare cases where fast-registration can't be done -- in SRP I think the code goes to

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-29 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 1/29/2014 4:13 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote: On 01/28/14 22:02, Or Gerlitz wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. I have a question about RDMA and T10-DIF support. The Linux block layer, the Linux SCSI core, Linux filesystems and block drivers all support

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-29 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 29/01/2014 17:06, Sagi Grimberg wrote: Non-contiguous buffers are a well known problem/challenge for RDMA transports, each handles them differently: iSER uses bounce buffers, SRP registers multiple contiguous regions. To be precise, we do it only on very special cases, normally the payload

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-28 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014, Sagi Grimberg sa...@dev.mellanox.co.il wrote: On 1/22/2014 2:43 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. We deserve a response from the maintainer that goes

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-22 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 1/22/2014 2:43 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. We deserve a response from the maintainer that goes beyond I need to think on that. Responsiveness was stated by

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-21 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Mon, Jan 20, 2014, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 19, 2014, sagi grimberg sa...@mellanox.com wrote: Thanks Nic, let me elaborate on this, [...] Hope this helps, Hi Roland, with Nic's Sagi's answers @ hand, were your questions resolved? Roland, ping! the signature

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-21 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 2:43 AM, Roland Dreier rol...@kernel.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. We deserve a response from the maintainer that goes beyond I need to think on that.

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-21 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Roland Co, On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 16:43 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Roland, ping! the signature patches were posted three months ago. We deserve a response from the maintainer that goes beyond I need to think on that.

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-20 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:20 PM, sagi grimberg sa...@mellanox.com wrote: Thanks Nic, let me elaborate on this, It is true that T10-PI aims for end-to-end data-integrity, the verbs API offer HW offload for protection information processing which is VERY expensive for CPU computation (CRC

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-19 Thread sagi grimberg
On 1/19/2014 5:42 AM, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 13:42 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: I've reviewed the API from the perspective of what's required for implementing protection support in

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-18 Thread Roland Dreier
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: I've reviewed the API from the perspective of what's required for implementing protection support in iser, and currently don't have any recommendations or objections beyond what has been proposed by Sagi Co in

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-18 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Sat, 2014-01-18 at 13:42 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Nicholas A. Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org wrote: I've reviewed the API from the perspective of what's required for implementing protection support in iser, and currently don't have any recommendations

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-17 Thread Martin K. Petersen
nab == Nicholas A Bellinger n...@linux-iscsi.org writes: nab So there is not a interface in SCSI land for interacting (directly) nab with hardware protection support, as it's primarily just telling nab SCSI what protection modes are supported while the rest is nab implemented in vendor specific

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-16 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:32 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Roland Co, Just curious if your planning to take a look at this series soon for v3.14 code..? As you might imagine, I'd like to see it merged this round

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-16 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:12PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:32 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Roland Co, Just curious if your planning to take a look at this series soon for

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-16 Thread Or Gerlitz
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:12PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:32 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Roland

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-16 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:12PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: On Mon,

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-16 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 23:42 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 01:14:12PM -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 12:13 -0800, Roland Dreier wrote: SNIP I haven't

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-15 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 12:32 -0800, Nicholas A. Bellinger wrote: Hi Roland Co, Just curious if your planning to take a look at this series soon for v3.14 code..? As you might imagine, I'd like to see it merged this round in order to move forward on iser-target protection for v3.15. Are

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-13 Thread Nicholas A. Bellinger
Hi Roland Co, Just curious if your planning to take a look at this series soon for v3.14 code..? As you might imagine, I'd like to see it merged this round in order to move forward on iser-target protection for v3.15. Are there any specific issues that you'd like to see addressed for an

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-08 Thread Sagi Grimberg
On 1/8/2014 2:51 AM, Roland Dreier wrote: On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Currently there is single patch for 3.14 on your for-next branch, the usnic driver. With 3.13 being on rc7 and likely to be released next week, are you planning any other merges for

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-08 Thread Or Gerlitz
On 08/01/2014 02:51, Roland Dreier wrote: The data integrity stuff I'm not so sure about. Sean raised some I think legitimate questions about whether all this should be added to the verbs API and I want to see more discussion or at least have a deep think about this myself before comitting.

linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-07 Thread Or Gerlitz
Hi Roland, Currently there is single patch for 3.14 on your for-next branch, the usnic driver. With 3.13 being on rc7 and likely to be released next week, are you planning any other merges for 3.14? we have patches waiting for weeks and months without any comment from you. Or. -- To unsubscribe

Re: linux rdma 3.14 merge plans

2014-01-07 Thread Roland Dreier
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Or Gerlitz or.gerl...@gmail.com wrote: Currently there is single patch for 3.14 on your for-next branch, the usnic driver. With 3.13 being on rc7 and likely to be released next week, are you planning any other merges for 3.14? we have patches waiting for weeks