Re: [for-next 4/6] net/mlx5: FPGA, Add basic support for Innova

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On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:52:15AM +0000, Ilan Tayari wrote:

> So neither the host stack nor the network are aware of them.
> They exist momentarily only on the internal traces on the board and not
> anywhere else.

Is that really true? If you are creating rocee QPs' then the RDMA
stack sees this stuff and now we have buried a RDMA ULP inside an
ethernet driver which seems really wonky..

> I don't mind explaining further, but I think you will just see it in the
> patchset when we submit.

You described exactly what I thought.. I just disagree with you that
an ethernet connected and controlled IP accelerator is 'part of the
NIC', even if it happens to be colocated on the same circuit board.

Jason
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