Re: dedicated list for rdma userspace programming

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 02:07:14PM +0300, Vasiliy Tolstov wrote:
> 2017-04-24 13:42 GMT+03:00 Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > There are number of char devices exported by infiniband subsystem
> > (/dev/infiniband/*) and the communication is performed with read/write
> > interfaces to uverbs file [1].
> >
> > Right now, we are in process of migration from these interfaces to ioctl
> > based, see Matan's latest RFC [2].
>
>
> Where i can find tree with commits from [2] ?

https://github.com/matanb10/linux tag: abi-devel-latest

> And how much work needs to be done to get this work upstream? (1
> month, 6 months, years...) ?

At least one kernel cycle, and after transition read/write will be
obsolete and will be dropped.

> If i want to try working with uverbs without C librarary, where i can
> find some info about format of messages reader and writed to uverbs
> device?

Did you see Documentation/infiniband/user_verbs.txt?

Thanks
>
> --
> Vasiliy Tolstov,
> e-mail: v.tolstov@xxxxxxxxx

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