RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-16 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Jason wrote, >I should be clearer here. I am *strongly* opposed to anything that changes the >license of the existing 4 core libraries away from the >GPLv2 or OpenIB.org situation we have today. (that includes to other varients >of the BSD license) >I just checked and we appear to be completely

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-16 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 04:59:10PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > package follows that licensing model for accepting any new code into > > that combined repo ? > > As with the kernel we'd discourage 're-licensing' existing files. > > However, since this is not a OFA project, I, personally, wo

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-15 Thread Leon Romanovsky
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:36:36AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:43:00PM +, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:03:39 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > > > [2] Libpvrdma User-level

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:20:22PM +, Woodruff, Robert J wrote: > >this new scheme works with >kernel.org 4.8, then it is possible > >that it could go into that OFED-4.8 Release, but again, we are > >still looking at the new scheme and evaluating how it affects >the > >community OFED. > > One

RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Woody Wrote, >We are still discussing this within the OFA EWG for the OFED releases. I >suspect that if all of the maintainers of the user-space packages agree to >merge into >and support this new merged repo-model, then OFED would eventually >base their OFED user-space packages on that repo, ra

RE: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Woodruff, Robert J
Adit wrote, >Thanks. So does this mean that the libraries distributed via OFED >(openfabrics.org) will be now from the rdma-plumbing git tree? >Or is the switch to happen only when distros start shipping with the 4.9 >kernel by default? We are still discussing this within the OFA EWG for the OFE

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 07:44:45PM +, Adit Ranadive wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:37:00 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > We desire to use this as the vehical for the userspace included with the 4.9 > > kernel. > > > > I anticipate the tree will be running by Oct 1. > > Thanks. So does

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Adit Ranadive
On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:37:00 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > We desire to use this as the vehical for the userspace included with the 4.9 > kernel. > > I anticipate the tree will be running by Oct 1. Thanks. So does this mean that the libraries distributed via OFED (openfabrics.org) will be

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-14 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:43:00PM +, Adit Ranadive wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:03:39 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > > [2] Libpvrdma User-level library - > > > http://git.openfabrics.org/?p=~aditr/libpvrdma.git;a=sum

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:43:00PM +, Adit Ranadive wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:03:39 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > > [2] Libpvrdma User-level library - > > > http://git.openfabrics.org/?p=~aditr/libpvrdma.git;a=sum

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-12 Thread Adit Ranadive
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 11:03:39 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote: > > [2] Libpvrdma User-level library - > > http://git.openfabrics.org/?p=~aditr/libpvrdma.git;a=summary > > You will probably find that rdma-plumbing will be the best wa

Re: [PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-12 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 09:49:10PM -0700, Adit Ranadive wrote: > [2] Libpvrdma User-level library - > http://git.openfabrics.org/?p=~aditr/libpvrdma.git;a=summary You will probably find that rdma-plumbing will be the best way to get your userspace component into the distributors. http://www.sp

[PATCH v4 00/16] Add Paravirtual RDMA Driver

2016-09-11 Thread Adit Ranadive
Hi Doug, others, This patch series adds a driver for a paravirtual RDMA device. The device is developed for VMware's Virtual Machines and allows existing RDMA applications to continue to use existing Verbs API when deployed in VMs on ESXi. We recently did a presentation in the OFA Workshop [1] reg