Re: [PATCH] RDMA/efa: Add rdma write capability to device caps

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



>>
>>       access_flags &= ~IB_ACCESS_OPTIONAL;
>>       if (access_flags & ~supp_access_flags) {
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/rdma/efa-abi.h b/include/uapi/rdma/efa-abi.h
>> index 74406b4817ce..d94c32f28804 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/rdma/efa-abi.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/rdma/efa-abi.h
>> @@ -121,6 +121,7 @@ enum {
>>       EFA_QUERY_DEVICE_CAPS_CQ_NOTIFICATIONS = 1 << 2,
>>       EFA_QUERY_DEVICE_CAPS_CQ_WITH_SGID     = 1 << 3,
>>       EFA_QUERY_DEVICE_CAPS_DATA_POLLING_128 = 1 << 4,
>> +     EFA_QUERY_DEVICE_CAPS_RDMA_WRITE = 1 << 5,
> 
> Why do you need special device capability while all rdma-core users
> set IBV_ACCESS_REMOTE_WRITE anyway without relying on anything from
> providers?
> 
> Thanks

We need to query the device because not every device supprort the same RDMA capabilities. Upper layers in the SW stack needs this supported flags to indicate which flows they can use. In addition this is identical to the existing RDMA read support in our code. 

Thanks.



[Index of Archives]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Photo]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]     [XFree86]

  Powered by Linux