Provide an option for vendor drivers to get the HW GID context
from the ib_gid_attr during modify_qp and create_ah. Required
for drivers/HW that maintains HW gid index different than the
host sgid_index.
Please review and merge
Thanks,
Selvin Xavier
v3 -> v4:
Addressed Jason's comments. Removed unnecessary validation and locking
as the reference to the GID table entry should be taken before invoking
the new symbol.
v2 -> v3:
Added a new symbol to retrieve the hw context.
v1 -> v2:
Addressed review comments from Parav
Selvin Xavier (2):
RDMA/core: Add helper function to retrieve driver gid context from gid
attr
RDMA/bnxt_re: Use rdma_read_gid_hw_context to retrieve HW gid index
drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
drivers/infiniband/hw/bnxt_re/ib_verbs.c | 23 ++++++++++++-----------
include/rdma/ib_cache.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
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