* Re: isert for mellanox drivers [not found] ` <5358DF60.9010202@mellanox.com> @ 2014-04-25 5:38 ` Christoph Hellwig 2014-04-25 5:55 ` Jason Gunthorpe 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* 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 :) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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