On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 7:17 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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.. It is not an ethernet driver, mlx5_core provides both RDMA and ethernet interfaces to both mlx5_ib and the mlx5e netdevice. so it is perfectly capable of creating QPs on its own, after all it is the one creating QPs for the RDMA stack :). rdma_create_qp->mlx5_ib_create_qp->mlx5_core_create_qp. > >> 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 -- 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
