From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 for-next 1/2] IB/core: Report LSO capabilities when querying device Date: Tue, 10 May 2016 07:58:01 +0300 Message-ID: <20160510045801.GV29160@leon.nu> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB048E47@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160504181135.GA15355@obsidianresearch.com> <21d9307f-766e-9aaa-54d3-207a4a4d5d8c@mellanox.com> <20160505181423.GB5957@obsidianresearch.com> <20160506225523.GA21309@obsidianresearch.com> <20160509163537.GA15479@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB04A390@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160509200507.GA23911@obsidianresearch.com> Reply-To: leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sr8SBrQ3fbgntwtR" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160509200507.GA23911-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Hefty, Sean" , Christoph Lameter , Matan Barak , Doug Ledford , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Majd Dibbiny , Bodong Wang List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --sr8SBrQ3fbgntwtR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 02:05:07PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Mon, May 09, 2016 at 07:11:23PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > > > An IBTA process? How would that be relevant here? > > >=20 > > > What do you mean? IBTA is the only multi-vendor body left working on > > > standardizing the hardware specification for verbs. > > >=20 > > > These various recent patches are adding new hardware features to > > > verbs. > > >=20 > > > If you want hardware knowledgeable people to help, then you need to go > > > to the forums they are active in. > > >=20 > > > This isn't just a software exercise. > >=20 > > Previous changes to the uABI (for example, XRC) were not accepted > > until they were standardized by the IBTA. An exception that I'm > > aware of are the flow specs. >=20 > We need to decide as a community what we want to do here, because this > uncertain process is getting tiring for everyone. >=20 > The Collab Summit discussions ended with a general consensus that some > things would go to the driver-specific channel, while hardware > behavior related to the common uAPI would go through at least a > multi-vendor sign off process - like IBTA. Jason, We did ALL and much more from the discussed for RSS patches and at the end, we saw half a word from the maintainer about the future plans for its accep= tance. >=20 > We didn't talk about how to expose them to apps in userspace once they > were exposed through the kernel. >=20 > It is pretty obvious the current 'process' isn't working. There is no meaning of "process" without people and their execution, and ri= ght now, I don't see any execution of it in the linux RDMA community (fixes and ULP changes are not merged for a while). --sr8SBrQ3fbgntwtR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXMWpZAAoJEORje4g2clinX2oQAICCpifiFfWlZiqMPkjZ4YWL 8ZExAzWX4NbOCRKViFs+LDfwyRtm6Ozd5QwQcF1JB/O/qoM1ZV8PS+olOOZufao5 sgWqBiOFWzXvium3OtjAxlgTvzINiwiCMe5oA3SibMSl/wrM8HTu6ac4cDnsqRp0 09iOOFKn04asL86wcI2XeZoP5LAMOzDS+E/6Uyc6diVvRczGdGi3XkdaijGj+y6U 48qJLClhnXYknD3LF0imNCmBAEP8+kg9b20dVQZNavr5nQB4ruWgDaasLOAS/2ve HaE44MR2xXg5O90LznFZi5ygqIVEx837eFLu6vEDyMH5AztUpl64atXzFJILcW+N b4Q0JDESnBSuh6ZbvnPen2Vd+vzH65WHMXR6TS3IibJrASZuGdD5rH6mSyXsz7Ur aPjsQyKd48+mX6qAs/L8Touui/7gzDHsK1NPDxM+OpHcWywrXQyFXNKEwmizNTm2 6BjxcWVIRmWKoNhLIRml1rnPnFJOo6JMF5FcYZqU0H7WCj3khlmq4a57Z4f3W85K N0pFukema6B42wlMgPHT77Wv3p0XoTOh+xMLT+V7SCX5lcC6BgnMid/Sbp09ewD9 bIOoWaAviCNRbINGHirvzHoxeIz4GWJYRKkxFoweiqoRYMBIdoWxZaoRhpu+2TjX a/1MiUd+KopOLRmia1S9 =Z86B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sr8SBrQ3fbgntwtR-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html