On 10/15/2015 11:38 AM, Matan Barak wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> This purpose of this series is to add usage of the GID cache to
> the CMA and IB stack. Instead of passing Ethernet L2 attributes
> via QP attributes, we could just use the GID cache that's already
> points to a ndev and thus to all required L2 attributes.
>
> The first five patches query the GID table to find only GIDs which
> are related to the bounded net-device of the specific used port. This
> extra information is carried via ib_sa_path_rec (extending it to
> include the namespace and ifindex). Querying the ndev and port
> is achieved by adding a gid_attr argument to ib_query_gid, add a
> ndev argument to ib_find_cached_gid and add a new
> ib_find_cached_gid_by_port. This usage of the GID table replaces
> the usage of QP attributes.
>
> The sixth patch adds an ib_cache_gid_find_by_filter function.
> This allows the user to query the cache by a specific filter.
> ib_cache_gid_find_by_filter is used by the seventh patch. Instead
> of storing the smac and vid on the AH, we could just resolve
> them from the net-device which the sgid index is assigned to.
> This change means that instead of resolving all L2 attributes,
> the server, we get the dgid and vlan and searches the GID cache
> in order to find a matching GID index.
>
> The last three patches removed unused fields and attributes.
>
> Matan
>
> Changes from V1:
> - Rebased patches against Doug's latest k.o/for-4.4 tree.
Most of this code seemed like pretty straight forward prepatory word for
the follow on patch series. However, I did note that this patch set
extends the per-element locking of the GID tables. I've taken this
patch set in spite of that fact. Please prioritize changing that
locking to something more reasonable. I would prefer if those changes
landed prior to the 4.4 merge window closing.
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Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
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