> From: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2021 1:21 PM > To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>; Rimmer, Todd > <todd.rimmer@xxxxxxxxx>; Wan, Kaike <kaike.wan@xxxxxxxxx>; > dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/9] A rendezvous module > > On 3/21/2021 12:45 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 21, 2021 at 12:24:39PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > >> On 3/21/2021 4:56 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > >>> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 12:39:46PM -0400, Dennis Dalessandro wrote: > >>>> On 3/19/2021 6:57 PM, Rimmer, Todd wrote: > >>>>>>> [Wan, Kaike] Incorrect. The rv module works with hfi1. > >>> > >>> <...> > >>> > >> > >>> 2. Find another vendor that jumps on this RV bandwagon. > >> > >> That's not a valid argument. Clearly this works over multiple vendors HW. > > > > At a certain point we have to decide if this is a generic code of some > > kind or a driver-specific thing like HFI has. > > > > There are also obvious technial problems designing it as a ULP, so it > > is a very important question to answer. If it will only ever be used > > by one Intel ethernet chip then maybe it isn't really generic code. > > Todd/Kaike, is there something in here that is specific to the Intel ethernet > chip? [Wan, Kaike] No. The code is generic to Verbs/ROCE devices.
