Re: [RFC] rdma/uverbs: Sketch for an ioctl framework

Jason Gunthorpe
2016-05-25T17:06:51Z

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