RE: [PATCH v2 rdma-next 0/3] IWPM support for no port mapping

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@xxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 4, 2019 5:34 PM
> To: Steve Wise <swise@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: dledford@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> BMT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; shiraz.saleem@xxxxxxxxx;
> tatyana.e.nikolova@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rdma-next 0/3] IWPM support for no port mapping
> 
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 01:33:35PM -0800, Steve Wise wrote:
> > A soft iwarp driver that uses the host TCP stack via a kernel mode
> > socket does not need port mapping.  In fact, if the port map daemon,
> > iwpmd, is running, then iwpmd must not try and create/bind a socket to
> > the actual port for a soft iwarp connection, since the driver already
> > has that socket bound.
> >
> > Yet if the soft iwarp driver wants to interoperate with hard iwarp
> > devices that -are- using port mapping, then the soft iwarp driver's
> > mappings still need to be maintained and advertised by the iwpm
protocol.
> >
> > This patch enhances the rdma driver<->iwcm interface to allow an
> > iwarp driver to specify that it does not want port mapping.  The iwpm
> > kernel<->iwpmd interface is also enhanced to pass up this information
> > on map requests.
> >
> > Care is taken to interoperate with the current iwpmd version (ABI
version
> > 3) and only use the new NL attributes if iwpmd supports ABI version 4.
> >
> > The ABI version define has also been created in rdma_netlink.h so both
> > kernel and user code can share it.  The iwcm and iwpmd negotiate the
> > ABI version to use with a new HELLO netlink message.
> >
> > This patch series can also be viewed at:
> >
> > https://github.com/larrystevenwise/linux/tree/topic/no-port-map-v2
> >
> > The corresponding rdma-core changes are at:
> >
> > https://github.com/larrystevenwise/rdma-core/tree/topic/no-port-map-v1
> > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg74538.html
> >
> > Changes since v1:
> >
> > - rename iwpm_user_ulib_version to iwpm_ulib_version
> >
> > - remove unneeded local variable from iwpm_send_hello()
> >
> > - pr_warn_once() if the kernel detects a down-level iwpmd
> >
> > - don't use BIT()
> >
> > - add reviewed-by tag
> >
> > - rebased to top-of-tree rdma-for-next
> >
> > Changes since rfc:
> >
> > - removed the sysfs abi_version file, replaced with inband abi_version
> > negotiation via a new HELLO message.
> >
> >
> > Steve Wise (3):
> >   iw_cxgb*: kzalloc the iwcm verbs struct
> >   RDMA/IWPM: refactor the IWPM message attribute names
> >   RDMA/IWPM: Support no port mapping requirements
> 
> Applied to for-next
> 
> You'll need to fix the github to use the kernel-headers/update script
> once this is finally pushed to for-next
> 
> Jason

Will do.




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