From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Knut Omang Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] SIF related verbs patches Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 22:42:02 +0200 Message-ID: <1474058522.20134.47.camel@oracle.com> References: <92bb7bce-b72f-54e1-59ab-1a93a084b10e@oracle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <92bb7bce-b72f-54e1-59ab-1a93a084b10e@oracle.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Santosh Shilimkar , Doug Ledford Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 13:30 -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote: > Hi Knut, > > On 9/16/2016 11:31 AM, Knut Omang wrote: > > This patch set contains the changes and bug fixes necessary > > to support Oracle's new Infiniband HCA (SIF) from the kernel side. > > > > The exception is patch 3 which is a useful consolidation and simplification > > made possible by patch 2 and the replacement of the dma_attr type with > > a plain bitmask. > > > > The changes to other rdma drivers are just trivial consequences of > > the extended umem_get and create_ah calls and should hopefully be > > uncontroversial. > > > > Patches 4-7 are related to corresponding libibverbs patches. > > These make minor changes (fixing end alignment) to some uverbs > > data structures, but these are carefully made to be backward > > binary compatible between user and kernel for existing provider > > libraries. > > > You have missed SOBs on few patches accidentally. You might want to > fix that for next post :-) > > regards, > Santosh An unfortunate side effect of getting going with the otherwise excellent git series tools that the -ns option I have been using to 'git format-patch' git lost. I have fixed the series for the next post, Thanks for spotting it, Knut