Re: [PATCH for-next V2 0/5] User-space time-stamping support for mlx5_ib

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On 12/23/2015 12:16 PM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Matan Barak <matanb@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This patch-set adds user-space support for time-stamping in mlx5_ib.
>> It implements the necessary API:
>> (a) ib_create_cq_ex - Add support for CQ creation flags
>> (b) ib_query_device - return timestamp_mask and hca_core_clock.
> 
>> We also add support for mmaping the HCA's free running clock.
>> In order to do so, we use the response of the vendor's extended
>> part in init_ucontext. This allows us to pass the page offset
>> of the free running clock register to the user-space driver.
>> In order to implement it in a future extensible manner, we  use the
>> same mechanism of verbs extensions to the mlx5 vendor part as well.
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> As Matan is now the maintainer of the mlx5_ib driver and this series
> doesn't add any IB/core changes, we see no reason that it can't go
> into 4.5. make sense?

I didn't see anything wrong with the set.  It's been picked up for 4.5.


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