On 2/14/2017 8:48 AM, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> 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
This series is entirely self contained and the API is owned solely by
mlx5, so series applied.
--
Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>
GPG Key ID: B826A3330E572FDD
Key fingerprint = AE6B 1BDA 122B 23B4 265B 1274 B826 A333 0E57 2FDD
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature
