* Re: isert for mellanox drivers
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@ 2014-04-25 5:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-25 5:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-04-25 5:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sagi grimberg
Cc: Christoph Hellwig, tony.seo@samsung.com, Alex Leung,
Nicholas A. Bellinger, target-devel, Or Gerlitz, Oren Duer,
linux-rdma
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:54:40PM +0300, sagi grimberg wrote:
> Well, I feel the same way (although less harsh about it), I would
> prefer to have it all inbox.
> As I see it, OFED is useful for costumers who want to upgrade RDMA
> functionality (or get Tech previews)
> without upgrading their distro or wait for it to land upstream.
For that we have the compat drivers project, which could easily handle
the rdma drivers as well.
The problem with OFED is (or was last time a looked) that it's a big
pile that includes backports, and new features not submitted or even
rejected upstream.
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* Re: isert for mellanox drivers
2014-04-25 5:38 ` isert for mellanox drivers Christoph Hellwig
@ 2014-04-25 5:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2014-04-25 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jason Gunthorpe @ 2014-04-25 5:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: sagi grimberg, tony.seo@samsung.com, Alex Leung,
Nicholas A. Bellinger, target-devel, Or Gerlitz, Oren Duer,
linux-rdma
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 10:38:25PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 12:54:40PM +0300, sagi grimberg wrote:
> > Well, I feel the same way (although less harsh about it), I would
> > prefer to have it all inbox.
> > As I see it, OFED is useful for costumers who want to upgrade RDMA
> > functionality (or get Tech previews)
> > without upgrading their distro or wait for it to land upstream.
>
> For that we have the compat drivers project, which could easily handle
> the rdma drivers as well.
>
> The problem with OFED is (or was last time a looked) that it's a big
> pile that includes backports, and new features not submitted or even
> rejected upstream.
Official OFA OFED is now strictly backports from a given kernel
verison, and TBH, is not widely used now that everything is included
in the modern distros.
The vendor 'OFEDs' remain a big pile. I'm not even sure source is
proved for them.. At least it isn't readily apparent.
IMHO, the vendors should not be co-opting the OFED branding, but that
is a whole other topic....
Jason
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* Re: isert for mellanox drivers
2014-04-25 5:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe
@ 2014-04-25 6:03 ` Christoph Hellwig
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christoph Hellwig @ 2014-04-25 6:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Jason Gunthorpe
Cc: sagi grimberg, tony.seo@samsung.com, Alex Leung,
Nicholas A. Bellinger, target-devel, Or Gerlitz, Oren Duer,
linux-rdma
On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 11:55:08PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> Official OFA OFED is now strictly backports from a given kernel
> verison, and TBH, is not widely used now that everything is included
> in the modern distros.
>
> The vendor 'OFEDs' remain a big pile. I'm not even sure source is
> proved for them.. At least it isn't readily apparent.
>
> IMHO, the vendors should not be co-opting the OFED branding, but that
> is a whole other topic....
Thanks for the clarification Jason! I'll take back my rant and will
apply it to the vendors instead :)
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