From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [RFC] rdma/uverbs: Sketch for an ioctl framework Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 11:06:51 -0600 Message-ID: <20160525170651.GA10940@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB04FB7F@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <11b6d9c1-0b20-f929-c896-ca084fe18192@redhat.com> <20160524214137.GA6760@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB0502ED@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> <20160524231359.GA10664@obsidianresearch.com> <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB050592@ORSMSX109.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373AB050592-P5GAC/sN6hkd3b2yrw5b5LfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: Doug Ledford , Liran Liss , "linux-rdma (linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org)" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 02:59:41PM +0000, Hefty, Sean wrote: > > As I outlined, the genesis to do this was to migrate libibverbs to an > > ioctl interface and in the process set a better stage for all the > > other things people want to do. That includes better supporting > > non-libibverbs libraries (dpdk, libfabric, whatever) > > Then create ioctl 1 - direct mapping of the write interface > Ioctl 2-255 - extensions That is an option.. > > The purpose of the object/method style framework was to better set the > > stage for the core code to provide that kind of wider interface for > > the drivers. > > I tried applying this to the rdma cm. It's a very poor fit. I'm very surprised by this, what do we have to do for rdma cm then? Jason -- 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