Re: infiniband limit of 32 cards per system?

[Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>]

* Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>:
> 
>  > If that enum is indeed the limiting factor, would someone
>  > mind explaining (or pointing me at TFM ;) why it's limited
>  > to 32 devices?
> 
> That dates back to when device #s had 8 bits for major and 8
> bits for minor.  We got one major assigned for IB, and had to
> split up the 256 minors that gave us among userspace verbs,
> management access, etc.  And 32 seemed like a pretty reasonable
> limit for most uses.

Hm...

        IB_UMAD_MAX_PORTS  = 64,
        IB_UMAD_MAJOR      = 231,
        IB_UMAD_MINOR_BASE = 0
	register_chrdev_region(base_dev, IB_UMAD_MAX_PORTS * 2, "infiniband_mad");

        IB_UVERBS_MAJOR       = 231,
        IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR  = 192,
        IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES = 32
	register_chrdev_region(IB_UVERBS_BASE_DEV, IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES, "infiniband_verbs");

        IB_UCM_MAJOR = 231,
        IB_UCM_BASE_MINOR = 224,
        IB_UCM_MAX_DEVICES = 32
	register_chrdev_region(IB_UCM_BASE_DEV, IB_UCM_MAX_DEVICES, "infiniband_cm");

It looks like we have a hole from [128, 192).

Would it be something as simple as this?

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/uve
index 5f284ff..b9aa2b8 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c
@@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
 
 enum {
        IB_UVERBS_MAJOR       = 231,
-       IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR  = 192,
-       IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES = 32
+       IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR  = 128,
+       IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES = 64
 };
 
 #define IB_UVERBS_BASE_DEV     MKDEV(IB_UVERBS_MAJOR, IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR)