RE: [PATCH rdma-next 2/2] IB/core: Refer to RoCE port property instead of GID table property

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Gunthorpe [mailto:jgg@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2018 4:55 PM
> To: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>; Leon Romanovsky
> <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
> Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 2/2] IB/core: Refer to RoCE port property
> instead of GID table property
> 
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 05:16:36PM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > From: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > ib_query_gid() in commit [1] refers to RoCE GID table capability of
> > the HCA using rdma_cap_roce_gid_table().
> > ib_core maintains the GID table cache regardless of the HCA provider
> > drivers capability to maintain RoCE GID table.
> > Therefore, whether to return a GID table entry from the software cache
> > or from HCA should be done based on whether the port is RoCE or not.
> >
> > [1] commit 03db3a2d81e6 ("IB/core: Add RoCE GID table management")
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > drivers/infiniband/core/device.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> applied to for-next
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> > b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> > index ef0b1047c5f7..a6e102e58d1a 100644
> > +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/device.c
> > @@ -877,7 +877,7 @@ int ib_query_gid(struct ib_device *device,
> >  		 u8 port_num, int index, union ib_gid *gid,
> >  		 struct ib_gid_attr *attr)
> >  {
> > -	if (rdma_cap_roce_gid_table(device, port_num))
> > +	if (rdma_protocol_roce(device, port_num))
> >  		return ib_get_cached_gid(device, port_num, index, gid, attr);
> >
> >  	if (attr)
> 
> Is any caller of rdma_cap_roce_gid_table actually correct to use it?
> Maybe some in the core code?
> 
Core code looks ok to me upcoming patches and existing code.

> Particularly the driver stuff.. A driver that always sets add_gid then calls
> rdma_cap_roce_gid_table seems confused, should just use rdma_protocol_roce
> right?
> 
Not sure. They can likely use rdma_protocol_roce().
Mlx4 has some complexity around VF that I don't fully understand.
Qedr might have iWarp and RoCE both so it might need it, but yes in that case it can always make call to rdma_protocol_roce().
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