This patchset from Leon adds direct access to mlx5 devices. Sending V2 to handle few notes around packaging and man pages, details below. 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 one hardware specific header with relevant inline functions and conversion logic from ibverbs structures to mlx5 related structures. New header is going to be installed in below path location: /usr/inlcude/infiniband/mlx5dv.h The direct include of mlx5dv.h together with linkage to mlx5 library will allow usage of this new interface. Note: all Mellanox NIC devices starting from Connect-IB (Connect-IB, ConnectX-4, ConnectX-4Lx, ConnectX-5 and more to come in the future) implement the mlx5 API, thus using the mlx5 direct verbs does not limit the applications to a single NIC HW device thus keeping some level of portability. Pull request was sent: https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/pull/63 Yishai Changes from V1: * Moved man pages and header files to *-dev packages. * Changed license for newly created files from BSD variant to MIT. * Updated man pages. Changes from V0: * Removed mlx5 and include sub-directories from installed path and source code. * Put all DV code into one header file. * Renamed mlx5/dv.h to be mlx5dv.h file. * Added providers/mlx5/libmlx5.map file with exported functions. * Allowed mlx5 provider to be shared library. * Added manual pages for direct verbs. * Rebased to latest rdma-core. * Create symlink for libmlx5-rdmav2.so to point to libmlx5.so. * Dropped patch which changed INLINE_SCATTER defines. * Replaced ntohll functions to be64toh, followup of https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/commit/b21ff60e0e111e295a18cc8e3397347893c524bc * Added Jason's SOB tag for his debian/redhat/Cmake work. Leon Romanovsky (7): mlx5: Add mlx5 direct verbs mlx5: Add CQE fields mlx5: Add WQE segments implementation mlx5: Use macro for CQE version 1 mlx5: Convert to use predefined get CQE opcodes mlx5: Add direct verbs man pages mlx5: Export mlx5 direct verbs interface CMakeLists.txt | 1 + buildlib/rdma_functions.cmake | 51 +++ buildlib/relpath | 7 + debian/ibverbs-providers.install | 1 + debian/ibverbs-providers.symbols | 4 + debian/libibverbs-dev.install | 3 + providers/mlx5/CMakeLists.txt | 7 +- providers/mlx5/cq.c | 96 +---- providers/mlx5/libmlx5.map | 8 + providers/mlx5/man/CMakeLists.txt | 5 + providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv.7 | 44 +++ providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv_init_obj.3 | 130 +++++++ providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv_query_device.3 | 50 +++ providers/mlx5/mlx5.c | 111 +++++- providers/mlx5/mlx5.h | 62 +--- providers/mlx5/mlx5dv.h | 588 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ providers/mlx5/qp.c | 2 +- providers/mlx5/wqe.h | 97 +---- redhat/rdma-core.spec | 3 + 19 files changed, 1027 insertions(+), 243 deletions(-) create mode 100644 buildlib/relpath create mode 100644 debian/ibverbs-providers.symbols create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/libmlx5.map create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/man/CMakeLists.txt create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv.7 create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv_init_obj.3 create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/man/mlx5dv_query_device.3 create mode 100644 providers/mlx5/mlx5dv.h -- 1.8.3.1 -- 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
