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

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On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 05:15:00PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> 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].

.. and I already did s390 support for mlx5 drivers in rdma-core, you
should test it.

Jason
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