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From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz-hKgKHo2Ms0FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
To: Eli Cohen <eli-VPRAkNaXOzVS1MOuV/RT9w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-rdma <linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org>,
	Sean Hefty <sean.hefty-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv7 7/9] ib_core: Add API to support RoCEE from userspace
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:53:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B541366.2090509@Voltaire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100105103322.GI31480@mtls03>

Eli Cohen wrote:
> Add ib_uverbs_get_mac() to be used by ibv_create_ah() to retirieve the remote
> port's MAC address from the remote port's GID. Port link layer is also returned
> by ibv_query_port()

why can't all this be implemented within libibverbs? looking on mlx4's implementation of ib_get_mac, it reduces to calling rdma_get_ll_mac, a two liner inline function which does the translation.

Or.
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-18  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-05 10:33 [PATCHv7 7/9] ib_core: Add API to support RoCEE from userspace Eli Cohen
2010-01-13 21:55 ` Sean Hefty
     [not found]   ` <52D379D24301435CB26E9B1FE51DBA57-Zpru7NauK7drdx17CPfAsdBPR1lH4CV8@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-17  8:13     ` Eli Cohen
2010-01-18  7:53 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]

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