Re: [PATCH v3 01/28] IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport()

[Hal Rosenstock <hal@dev.mellanox.co.il>]

On 4/13/2015 8:22 AM, Michael Wang wrote:
> diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> index 65994a1..d54f91e 100644
> --- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> +++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
> @@ -75,10 +75,13 @@ enum rdma_node_type {
>  };
>  
>  enum rdma_transport_type {
> +	/* legacy for users */
>  	RDMA_TRANSPORT_IB,
>  	RDMA_TRANSPORT_IWARP,
>  	RDMA_TRANSPORT_USNIC,
> -	RDMA_TRANSPORT_USNIC_UDP
> +	RDMA_TRANSPORT_USNIC_UDP,
> +	/* new transport */
> +	RDMA_TRANSPORT_IBOE,
>  };
>  
>  __attribute_const__ enum rdma_transport_type
> @@ -1501,6 +1504,8 @@ struct ib_device {
>  	int		           (*query_port)(struct ib_device *device,
>  						 u8 port_num,
>  						 struct ib_port_attr *port_attr);
> +	enum rdma_transport_type   (*query_transport)(struct ib_device *device,
> +						      u8 port_num);
>  	enum rdma_link_layer	   (*get_link_layer)(struct ib_device *device,
>  						     u8 port_num);
>  	int		           (*query_gid)(struct ib_device *device,

libibverbs also exposes transport at the device level. Isn't a change to
make transport per port rather than per device needed there as well to
be consistent with these proposed kernel changes ? If so, would the
additional IBoE transport be exposed ? We also need to worry about
backward compatibility for existing applications.

-- Hal