From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] ib_verbs: Add a new qp create flag to request features for Ethernet over IB Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 11:11:07 -0600 Message-ID: <20160902171107.GF24997@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1472774969-18997-1-git-send-email-knut.omang@oracle.com> <1472774969-18997-10-git-send-email-knut.omang@oracle.com> <20160902021729.GE30057@obsidianresearch.com> <1472792670.9410.276.camel@oracle.com> <1472814057.3975.47.camel@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Santosh Shilimkar Cc: Knut Omang , Doug Ledford , linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 09:19:43AM -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > Don't want to hijack your patch but I also have seen another need where > ULP needs to pass additional information to driver for creating > RC qp with couple of add-ons . My current thought is to use reserved > QP flag bits (bits 26-31, for low level drivers' internal use) Nope, absolutely not. Propose an actual verbs API extensions for what you want to do just like Mellanox has been doing. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html