Re: Status of RXE/Soft-RoCE driver?

[Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>]

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On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 10:09:15PM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote:
> On 04/28/2016 10:01 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 02:17:29PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> > 
> >>> FWIW, I'd love to see ib_rxe upstream asap. In fact, I even have
> >>> some patches to contribute for it.
> >>
> >> We are planning on submitting it in very near future.
> > 
> > So.. lets get this going, Linus made a comment [1] that we might not
> > go up even till rc7, which means there very little time left, Moni?
> > 
> > On a related note, is there ANY patch merged for 4.7? Doug, are we
> > again going to have have it in
> > all-patches-merged-on-the-same-night-10-days-after-the-merge-window-opened
> > manner?
> 
> I have topic branches started.  The generic RDMA READ/WRITE API is
> almost ready to go once Christoph answers the last few things.  That's
> really the only one in queue right now that's big in terms of core
> changes, most of the rest of the stuff is all driver or ULP specific.
> The RSS patches haven't got much review yet.

Doug,
These patches are long time here in mailing list and they were reviewed as
all other patches in this mailing list.

> The SELinux patches are in RFC stage, and IMO should be shelved until
> verbs 2.0 API is settled so we only have one API to apply it too,

SELinux code adds hooks which are deep in IB/core code and doesn't
play with ABI at all. This is unrelated to ABI change initiative which
anyhow will be required to support existing IBTA specification.

> -- 
> Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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