From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Very little of the rxe RADME.md is relevant with the kernel driver upstream, and the userspace provider part of this repository. Move the remaining bits to Documentation/rxe.md and delete the rest. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> --- Documentation/rxe.md | 22 ++++++++++++++++++ librxe/README.md | 63 ---------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 63 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/rxe.md delete mode 100644 librxe/README.md diff --git a/Documentation/rxe.md b/Documentation/rxe.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..8e753decb3cb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/rxe.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +# Configure Soft-RoCE (RXE): + +Load rdma_rxe kernel module using the rxe_cfg script included in the librxe RPM: + + # rxe_cfg start (this might require sudo or root privileges) + +Create RXE device over network interface (e.g. eth0): + + # rxe_cfg add eth0 + +Use the status command to display the current configuration: +rxe_cfg status + +If configured successfully, you should see output similar to the following: + +``` + Name Link Driver Speed NMTU IPv4_addr RDEV RMTU + eth0 yes mlx4_en rxe0 1024 (3) +``` + +If you are using a Mellanox HCA: Need to make sure that the mlx4_ib kernel module is not loaded (modprobe –rv mlx4_ib) in the soft-RoCE machine. +Now you have an Infiniband device called “rxe0” that can be used to run any RoCE app. diff --git a/librxe/README.md b/librxe/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 743edd1421bf..000000000000 -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
