On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:54:13PM +0000, Ariel Elior wrote: > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 4:34 PM > > To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: Shai Malin <smalin@xxxxxxxxxxx>; davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > kuba@xxxxxxxxxx; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Ariel Elior > > <aelior@xxxxxxxxxxx>; malin1024@xxxxxxxxx; RDMA mailing list <linux- > > rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH] qed: Enable RDMA relaxed ordering > > > > External Email > > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 02:52:21PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > +RDMA > > > > > > Jakub, David > > > > > > Can we please ask that everything directly or indirectly related to > > > RDMA will be sent to linux-rdma@ too? > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2021 at 09:54:48PM +0300, Shai Malin wrote: > > > > Enable the RoCE and iWARP FW relaxed ordering. > > > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <aelior@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_rdma.c | 2 ++ > > > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_rdma.c > > > > b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_rdma.c > > > > index 4f4b79250a2b..496092655f26 100644 > > > > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/qed/qed_rdma.c > > > > @@ -643,6 +643,8 @@ static int qed_rdma_start_fw(struct qed_hwfn > > *p_hwfn, > > > > cnq_id); > > > > } > > > > > > > > + p_params_header->relaxed_ordering = 1; > > > > > > Maybe it is only description that needs to be updated, but I would > > > expect to see call to pcie_relaxed_ordering_enabled() before setting > > > relaxed_ordering to always true. > > > > > > If we are talking about RDMA, the IB_ACCESS_RELAXED_ORDERING flag > > > should be taken into account too. > > > > Why does this file even exist in netdev? This whole struct qed_rdma_ops > > mess looks like another mis-design to support out of tree modules?? > > > > Jason > > Hi Jason, > qed_rdma_ops is not related to in tree / out of tree drivers. The qed is the > core module which is used by the protocol drivers which drive this type of nic: > qede, qedr, qedi and qedf for ethernet, rdma, iscsi and fcoe respectively. > qed mostly serves as a HW abstraction layer, hiding away the details of FW > interaction and device register usage, and may also hold Linux specific things > which are protocol agnostic, such as dcbx, sriov, debug data collection logic, > etc. qed interacts with the protocol drivers through ops structs for many > purposes (dcbx, ptp, sriov, etc). And also for rdma. It's just a way for us to > separate the modules in a clean way. Delete the ops struct. Move the RDMA functions to the RDMA module Directly export the core functions needed to make that work Two halfs of the same dirver do not and should not have an ops structure ABI between them. Jason
