On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 08:29:55AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Hi, > > This series is dependent on mlx5-next targeted branch. > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10771863/ > > >From Yishai: > This series enables querying a DEVX object in an asynchronous mode. > > The userspace application won't block when calling the firmware and it will be > able to get the response back once that it will be ready. > > To enable the above functionality: > - DEVX asynchronous command completion FD object was introduced. > - The applicable file operations were implemented to enable using it by the > user application. > - Query asynchronous method was added to the DEVX object, it will call the > firmware asynchronously and manages the response on the given input FD. > - Hot unplug support was added for the FD to work properly upon > unbind/disassociate. > - mlx5 core fence for asynchronous commands was implemented and used to prevent > racing upon unbind/disassociate. > > Thanks > > Yishai Hadas (4): > IB/mlx5: Introduce MLX5_IB_OBJECT_DEVX_ASYNC_CMD_FD > IB/mlx5: Introduce async DEVX obj query API > IB/mlx5: Implement the file ops of DEVX async command FD > IB/mlx5: Implement DEVX hot unplug for async command FD Applied to for-next with the mlx5-next update Jason
