> -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Gunthorpe > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:39 AM > To: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>; > Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>; RDMA mailing list <linux- > rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 3/3] RDMA/nldev: Return device protocol > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:26:02PM -0300, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > > > > From: Jason Gunthorpe > > > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2019 10:17 AM > > > To: Parav Pandit <parav@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@xxxxxxxxxx>; Ira Weiny > > > <ira.weiny@xxxxxxxxx>; Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx>; RDMA > > > mailing list <linux- rdma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 3/3] RDMA/nldev: Return device > > > protocol > > > > > > On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 12:09:05PM -0300, Parav Pandit wrote: > > > > > > > How one shall create a IB link using rxe driver? Can you please > describe? > > > > RDMA_NLDEV_ATTR_LINK_TYPE=rxe. > > > > How to say this new device type is IB or ROCE? > > > > > > The user interface for this via 'rdma' is just a single string to > > > define what you get. > > > > > > So that string must unambigously specify all the parameters. > > > > > Do you mean string should say "rxe ib" to create IB rxe devices? > > And "rxe" for RoCEv2 as it stands today? > > Any example in general that I do not know which passes multiple > parameters as single string in netlink, instead of describing attribute > separately? > > Sounds odd to me. > > Follows the basic design of 'ip link add' fundamentally different things have > different string names > > I don't even know what 'rxe ib' is supposed to be - but it certainly doesn't > have an associated netdev, for instance. > Ok. got it. 'rxe ib' = 'sib'. > Better to call it 'sib' or something. >
