Since v1:
* Merge the descriptions from Doug:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg25172.html
This is the following patch for:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/5/5/417
which try to document the settled rdma_cap_XX().
Highlights:
There could be many missing/mistakes/misunderstanding, please don't
be hesitate to point out the issues, any suggestions to improve or
complete the description are very welcomed ;-)
Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/infiniband/rdma_helpers.txt | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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+RDMA HELPERS
+
+ The following helpers are used to check the specific capabilities of a
+ particular port before utilizing those capabilities.
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_mad - Infiniband Management Datagrams.
+ rdma_cap_ib_smi - Infiniband Subnet Management Interface.
+ rdma_cap_ib_cm - Infiniband Communication Manager.
+ rdma_cap_iw_cm - IWARP Communication Manager.
+ rdma_cap_ib_sa - Infiniband Subnet Administration.
+ rdma_cap_ib_mcast - Infiniband Multicast Join/Leave Protocol.
+ rdma_cap_read_multi_sge - RDMA Read Work Request Support Multiple SGE.
+ rdma_cap_af_ib - Native Infiniband Address.
+ rdma_cap_eth_ah - InfiniBand Transport With Ethernet Address.
+
+USAGE
+
+ if (rdma_cap_XX(device, i)) {
+ /* The port i of device support XX */
+ ...
+ } else {
+ /* The port i of device don't support XX */
+ ...
+ }
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_mad
+ ---------------
+ Management Datagrams (MAD) are a required part of the InfiniBand
+ specification and are supported on all InfiniBand devices. A slightly
+ extended version are also supported on OPA interfaces.
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_smi
+ ---------------
+ Subnet Management Interface (SMI) will handle SMP packet from SM
+ in an infiniband fabric.
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_cm
+ ---------------
+ Communication Manager (CM) service, used to ease the process of connecting
+ to a remote host. The IB-CM can be used to connect to remote hosts using
+ either InfiniBand or RoCE connections, iWARP has its own CM.
+
+ rdma_cap_iw_cm
+ ---------------
+ iWARP Communication Manager (CM), Similar to the IB-CM, but only used on
+ iWARP devices.
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_sa
+ ---------------
+ Subnet Administration (SA) is the database built by SM in an
+ infiniband fabric.
+
+ rdma_cap_ib_mcast
+ ---------------
+ InfiniBand (and OPA) use a different multicast mechanism rather than
+ traditional IP multicast found on Ethernet devices. If this is true, then
+ traditional IPv4/IPv6 multicast is handled by the IPoIB layer and direct
+ multicast joins and leaves are handled per the InfiniBand specifications.
+
+ rdma_cap_read_multi_sge
+ ---------------
+ Certain devices (iWARP in particular) have restrictions on the number of
+ scatter gather elements that can be present in an RDMA READ work request,
+ this is true if the device does not have that restriction.
+
+ rdma_cap_af_ib
+ ---------------
+ Many code paths for traditional InfiniBand and RoCE links are the same,
+ but need minor differences to accommodate the different addresses on the
+ two types of connections. This helper is true when the address of the
+ specific connection is of the InfiniBand native variety.
+
+ rdma_cap_eth_ah
+ ---------------
+ Queue Pair is InfiniBand transport, but uses Ethernet address instead
+ of native InfiniBand address (aka, this is a RoCE QP, and that means
+ ethertype 0x8915 + GRH for RoCEv1 and IP/UDP to well known UDP port for
+ RoCEv2), this is true when the address family of the specific queue pair
+ is of the Ethernet (RoCE) variety.
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