> This patchset from Leon adds direct access to mlx5 devices. > > The libibverbs API is an abstract API. It is agnostic to any underlying > provider specific implementation. While this abstraction has the advantage of > user applications portability it has a performance penalty. For some > applications optimizing performance is more important than portability. > > The mlx5 direct verbs API introduced in this patchset is intended for such > applications. It exposes mlx5 specific low level data path > (send/receive/completion) operations, allowing the application to bypass the > libibverbs data path API. > > The proposed interface consists from small number of hardware specific headers > with relevant inline functions and conversion logic from ibverbs structures to > mlx5 related structures. > Hi Yishay, While I'm always for better performance, I'm not sure driver specific APIs is the way. This will hurt portability for users. Thanks, Ram -- 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
