Re: [RFC] Generic InfiniBand transport done in software

[Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 07:38:30PM +0200, Moni Shoua wrote:
>This is not a question if I can hook Soft RoCE driver into this framework.
>In fact, I can't think of an IB driver that can't use this framework. What 
>this
>framework offers is just another hop from ib_core the real driver.
>Where is the removal of duplicated code? This is a list of functions
>that for now
>must be implemented in the low level driver.
>
>create_cq
>destroy_cq
>poll_cq
>req_notify_cq
>resize_cq
>create_srq
>modify_srq
>destroy_srq
>query_srq
>create_qp
>query_device
>query_gid
>alloc_ucontext
>modify_device
>modify_qp
>dealloc_ucontext
>query_port
>destroy_qp
>get_port_immutable
>modify_port
>query_qp
>post_send
>post_recv
>post_srq_recv
>
>Most if not all of them have common part in all drivers.
>What are the plans to get rid of them? When?
>Don't you think that this should be known in advance?

We have patch sets that implement all of these which will be posted soon.  
With the holidays things have just been a bit slow to come out.

-Denny
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