Re: [PATCH] libmlx5: add support for the s390x platform

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On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 03:36:20PM +0200, Kittipon Meesompop wrote:
> Since s390x platform requires execution of privileged CPU instructions
> to work with PCI I/O memory, the PCI I/O memory cannot be directly
> accessed from the userspace programs via the mapped memory areas.
>
> This patch is created against libmlx5-1.2.1 and contains the changes to
> the libmlx5 userspace Mellanox device driver library required to provide
> support for the DAPL API on the s390x platform. The original code that
> directly used mapped memory areas to access the PCI I/O memory of the
> Mellanox networking device is replaced with the new system call
> invocation for writing the data to mapped memory areas. The functions
> for reading and writing are added analogously to libmlx4.
>
> libmlx4 comparison to:
>         commit f5c26f8762135f629c8cbe73d808e3029f07b176
>         Author: Alexey Ishchuk <aishchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>         Date:   Wed Nov 19 11:17:19 2014 +0100
>
> Signed-off-by: Kittipon Meesompop <kmeesomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Thank you for doing it. I afraid that you sent this patch to a wrong
mailing list. I don't know exactly where you should sent it, but all
new development for last ~12 months of RDMA user space stack is done
against rdma-core [1].

Thanks

[1] http://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core

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