Re: [PATCH v2 iproute2-next 0/6] cm_id, cq, mr, and pd resource tracking

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 01:45:12PM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> On 3/13/18 1:32 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:53:03AM -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> >> On 3/12/18 8:16 AM, Steve Wise wrote:
> >>> Hey all,
> >>>
> >>> The kernel side of this series has been merged for rdma-next [1].  Let me
> >>> know if this iproute2 series can be merged, of if it needs more changes.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The problem is that iproute2 headers are synced to kernel headers from
> >> DaveM's tree (net-next mainly). I take it this series will not appear in
> >> Dave's tree until after a merge through Linus' tree. Correct?
> > 
> > David,
> > 
> > Technically, you are right, and we would like to ask you for an extra tweak
> > to the flow for the RDMAtool, because current scheme causes delays at least
> > cycle.
> > 
> > Every RDMAtool's patchset which requires changes to headers is always
> > includes header patch, can you please accept those series and once you
> > are bringing new net-next headers from Linus, simply overwrite all our
> > headers?
> 
> I did not follow the discussion back when this decision was made, so how
> did rdma tool end up in iproute2? I do not need the overhead of
> sometimes I sync the rdma header file and sometimes I don't.

Could you pull the uapi headers from linux-next? That tree will have
both netdev and rdma stuff merged together properly.

Jason