On Sun, May 05, 2019 at 05:07:10PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Changelog v0 -> v1: > * Removed phys_addr dependency from kconfig > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >From Ariel, > > This series of patches adds user space managed steering infrastructure > to the mlx5_ib driver. > > User space managed steering requires the means to access a dedicated > memory space that is used by the device to store the packet steering > and header modification tables and rules in order to manage them > directly without the device's firmware involvement. This dedicated memory > is part of the ICM memory space. > > The changes are introducing the mlx5_ib API to allocate, deallocate and > register this dedicated SW ICM memory via the existing device memory API > using a private attribute which specifies the memory type. > > The allocated memory itself is not IO mapped and user can only access it > using remote RDMA operations. > > In addition, the series exposed the ICM address of the receive transport > interface (TIR) of Raw Packet and RSS QPs to user since they are > required to properly create and insert steering rules that direct flows > to these QPs. > > Thanks > > Ariel Levkovich (4): > IB/mlx5: Support device memory type attribute > IB/mlx5: Warn on allocated MEMIC buffers during cleanup > IB/mlx5: Add steering SW ICM device memory type > IB/mlx5: Device resource control for privileged DEVX user Applied to for-next, thanks Jason
