Re: [PATCH v14 0/11] Elastic RDMA Adapter (ERDMA) driver

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On 7/28/22 9:04 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 09:49:16AM +0800, Cheng Xu wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> This v14 patch set introduces the Elastic RDMA Adapter (ERDMA) driver,
>> which released in Apsara Conference 2021 by Alibaba. The PR of ERDMA
>> userspace provider has already been created [1].
>>
>> ERDMA enables large-scale RDMA acceleration capability in Alibaba ECS
>> environment, initially offered in g7re instance. It can improve the
>> efficiency of large-scale distributed computing and communication
>> significantly and expand dynamically with the cluster scale of Alibaba
>> Cloud.
>>
>> ERDMA is a RDMA networking adapter based on the Alibaba MOC hardware. It
>> works in the VPC network environment (overlay network), and uses iWarp
>> transport protocol. ERDMA supports reliable connection (RC). ERDMA also
>> supports both kernel space and user space verbs. Now we have already
>> supported HPC/AI applications with libfabric, NoF and some other internal
>> verbs libraries, such as xrdma, epsl, etc,.
>>
>> For the ECS instance with RDMA enabled, our MOC hardware generates two
>> kinds of PCI devices: one for ERDMA, and one for the original net device
>> (virtio-net). They are separated PCI devices.
> 
> Applied to for-next, please sent any further fixes as individual
> patches

We will.

Thank you, Jason. And thank everyone else who gave us lots of help.

Cheng Xu



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