Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] Make SMC-R can work with rxe devices

[Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>]

On 09/08/2024 10:31, Liu Jian wrote:
> Make SMC-R can work with rxe devices. This allows us to easily test and
> learn the SMC-R protocol without relying on a physical RoCE NIC.

Hi Liu,

sorry for taking quite some time to answer.

Looking into this i cannot accept this series at the given point of time.

FWIU, RXE is mainly for testing and development and i agree that it 
would be a nice thing to have for SMC-R.
The problem is that there is no clean layer for different RoCE devices 
currently. Adding RXE to it works but isn't clean.
Also we have no way to do a "test" build which would have such a device 
supported and a "prod" build which would not support it.

Please give us time to investigate how to solve this in a neat way 
without building up to much technical debt.

Thanks for your contribution and making us aware of this area of improvment.
- Jan

> 
> Liu Jian (4):
>    rdma/device: export ib_device_get_netdev()
>    net/smc: use ib_device_get_netdev() helper to get netdev info
>    net/smc: fix one NULL pointer dereference in smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync()
>    RDMA/rxe: Set queue pair cur_qp_state when being queried
> 
>   drivers/infiniband/core/core_priv.h   |  3 ---
>   drivers/infiniband/core/device.c      |  1 +
>   drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c |  2 ++
>   include/rdma/ib_verbs.h               |  2 ++
>   net/smc/smc_ib.c                      | 10 +++++-----
>   net/smc/smc_pnet.c                    |  6 +-----
>   6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>