Re: [PATCH v2 rdma-core] irdma: Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot rules

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On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 04:13:44PM +0000, Nikolova, Tatyana E wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 2, 2021 11:03 AM
> > To: Nikolova, Tatyana E <tatyana.e.nikolova@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>; dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> > rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rdma-core] irdma: Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot
> > rules
> > 
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 03:29:43PM +0000, Nikolova, Tatyana E wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 11:11 AM
> > > > To: Nikolova, Tatyana E <tatyana.e.nikolova@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; leon@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rdma-core] irdma: Add ice and irdma to
> > > > kernel-boot rules
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 10:48:16AM -0500, Tatyana Nikolova wrote:
> > > > > Add ice and irdma to kernel-boot rules so that these devices are
> > > > > recognized as iWARP and RoCE capable.
> > > > >
> > > > > Otherwise the port mapper service which is only relevant for iWARP
> > > > > devices may not start automatically after boot.
> > > > >
> > > > > Signed-off-by: Tatyana Nikolova <tatyana.e.nikolova@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > kernel-boot/rdma-description.rules | 2 ++
> > > > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > > >
> > > > Given that ice is both iwarp and roce, is there some better way to
> > > > detect this? Doesn't the aux device encode it?
> > >
> > > Hi Jason,
> > >
> > > We tried a few experiments without success. The auxiliary devices alias
> > with our driver and not ice, so maybe this is the reason?
> > >
> > > Here is an example of what we tried.
> > >
> > > udevadm info
> > > /sys/devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > > P: /devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > > E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > > E: DRIVER=irdma
> > > E: MODALIAS=auxiliary:ice.roce
> > > E: SUBSYSTEM=auxiliary
> > >
> > > udevadm info /sys/bus/auxiliary/devices/ice.roce.0
> > > P: /devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > > E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > > E: DRIVER=irdma
> > > E: MODALIAS=auxiliary:ice.roce
> > > E: SUBSYSTEM=auxiliary
> > 
> > Everything will be much easier if you follow my initial review comment about
> > auxiliary bus naming when irdma driver was added.
> > 
> > The RoCE device should be:
> > P: /devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.roce.0
> > E: MODALIAS=auxiliary:ice.roce
> > 
> > and the iWARP device needs to be:
> > P: /devices/pci0000:2e/0000:2e:00.0/0000:2f:00.0/ice.iwarp.0
> > E: MODALIAS=auxiliary:ice.iwarp
> 
> Hi Leon,
>  
> This is what we have now. We just provided an example with RoCE.

Great, so it seems like you almost there.

> 
> > 
> > Thanks



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