From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leon Romanovsky Subject: Re: [RFC] RESEND - rdmatool - tool for RDMA users Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:28:57 +0200 Message-ID: <20170118182857.GG32481@mtr-leonro.local> References: <20170118173327.GF32481@mtr-leonro.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr" Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Or Gerlitz Cc: Ariel Almog , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , Linux Netdev List List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org --sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:50:26PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 7:33 PM, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 06:48:21PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Ariel Almog > >> wrote: > > >>> As of today, there is no single, simple, tool that allows monitoring > >>> and configuration of RDMA stack. > > >> Before tool, what kernel UAPI you thought to use? > > > I'm aware of the following options: > > 1) netlink > > 2) RDMA ABI https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-rdma/msg43960.html > > 3) ioctl > > 4) write/read > > > > The items 1 and 2 are preferred options and one of the main goals > > for this RFC is to chose between them. > > > > For example, RDMA ABI has native support of querying and discovering > > device capabilities via merge tree feature. > > To make it clear, when you wrote ABI in your initial email, I tend to > think it was sort of unclear to the netdev crowd that you are talking > on new UAPI which is now under the works for the IB subsystem, so with > my netdev community member hat, I got confused... anyway You are right, I missed it in my review for Ariel who wrote this RFC and sent this RFC. Thanks --sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEkhr/r4Op1/04yqaB5GN7iDZyWKcFAlh/s+kACgkQ5GN7iDZy WKdR3A/7B36EKXRrPUYlAE6WDN8HbmhO5prXWvd/GJaCXarJMDi6jjm263v5hS1R 5WJpg1ZZYlmliaFZ32Pdq3EtWnORctfBiN0rv8FHczf/W5aYpF7L8WOGNERbN6Ev 3gRcznqBNwwOkDY+lk0I4VZU2hfdbcd1r3fZVcxv6vLVkh/H8zvZNzA5TJzrOOW1 Jyujv7j/6XZ9aKT/UqKqiB2n4fdzCXMrOePzebYQatFQ36iU7ZJSH/VfG/s8WDNz LznmIYZDSDn6spF9nWqcrC2/QqK7WOvBvCnSua+4cC6rgbC5fLH6cEcihDITa6Ob GoDELaF4ffngCm6pdkw+XKvEGKBGs2ZWYdG1IdBIsedA+qt6JSCy/K/LEl+A2ItE c7yFnOpGUnULLjCJNaQxBIlCOtj5nS1uFe21VfAqwJRvJstLzyl8Oh1E5MRcL9Tl fSg5vjT2FYicT0lqeTAqYBO+psCGRru5PWZ2UgCgFw5wD+V5ZKdMEnp4VZzbDmAm sFaz2b5+yCuDJjVyEAm7sEwnMlpPwGsmBA/tn6+Lq3BbCz2MOGzMPSMfzl2n4WdD mM/taKKE6kZKGTs9dfI2gw+2vZpRTCB8J77j9g55+vvTlhmR+dytUeOUkxsO2oZl kMGPPL2n2vQgki7vf5UpkHtznF+XWvHzmmqGGrKE0BKDV7wwo2U= =amsX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr--