Re: [PATCH v6 00/26] IB/Verbs: IB Management Helpers

[Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com>]

Add missing Cc: 
Devesh Sharma <Devesh.Sharma@Emulex.Com>"
Liran Liss <liranl@mellanox.com>"
Dave Goodell <dgoodell@cisco.com>"

Regards,
Michael Wang

On 04/24/2015 02:23 PM, Michael Wang wrote:
> Since v5:
>   * Thanks to Ira, Devesh for the review and testing :-)
>   * Thanks for the comments from Steve, Tom, Jason, Hal, Devesh, Ira,
>     Liran, Jason, Dave :-) Please remind me if anything missed :-P
>   * Trivial fix for 4#
>   * Drop the reform on acquiring link-layer in 9#
>   * Drop cap_ipoib()
> 
> There are plenty of lengthy code to check the transport type of IB device,
> or the link layer type of it's port, but actually we are just speculating
> whether a particular management/feature is supported by the device/port.
> 
> Thus instead of inferring, we should have our own mechanism for IB management
> capability/protocol/feature checking, several proposals below.
> 
> This patch set will reform the method of getting transport type, we will
> now using query_transport() instead of inferring from transport and link
> layer respectively, also we defined the new transport type to make the
> concept more reasonable.
> 
> Mapping List:
> 		node-type	link-layer	old-transport	new-transport
> nes		RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> amso1100	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> cxgb3   	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> cxgb4   	RNIC		ETH		IWARP		IWARP
> usnic   	USNIC_UDP	ETH		USNIC_UDP	USNIC_UDP
> ocrdma  	IB_CA		ETH		IB		IBOE
> mlx4    	IB_CA		IB/ETH		IB		IB/IBOE
> mlx5    	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> ehca    	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> ipath   	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> mthca   	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> qib     	IB_CA		IB		IB		IB
> 
> For example:
> 	if (transport == IB) && (link-layer == ETH)
> will now become:
> 	if (query_transport() == IBOE)
> 
> Thus we will be able to get rid of the respective transport and link-layer
> checking, and it will help us to add new protocol/Technology (like OPA) more
> easier, also with the introduced management helpers, IB management logical
> will be more clear and easier for extending.
> 
> Highlights:
>     The patch set covered a wide range of IB stuff, thus for those who are
>     familiar with the particular part, your suggestion would be invaluable ;-)
> 
>     Patch 1#~15# included all the logical reform, 16#~25# introduced the
>     management helpers, 26#~27# do clean up.
> 
>     we appreciate for those one who have the HW willing to provide Tested-by :-)
> 
>     Doug suggested the bitmask mechanism:
> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg23765.html
>     which could be the plan for future reforming, we prefer that to be another
>     series which focus on semantic and performance.
> 
>     This patch-set is somewhat 'bloated' now and it may be a good timing for
>     staging, I'd like to suggest we focus on improving existed helpers and push
>     all the further reforms into next series ;-)
> 
>     We now have a repository based on latest infiniband/for-next with this
>     series applied:
>         git@github.com:ywang-pb/infiniband-wy.git
> 
> Proposals:
>     Sean:
> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg23339.html
>     Doug:
> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg23418.html
> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg23765.html
>     Jason:
> 	https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org/msg23425.html
> 
> Michael Wang (26):
>   IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport()
>   IB/Verbs: Implement raw management helpers
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core mad/agent/user_mad
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core cm
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core sa_query
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core multicast
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp ipoib
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-ulp xprtrdma
>   IB/Verbs: Reform IB-core verbs
>   IB/Verbs: Reform cm related part in IB-core cma/ucm
>   IB/Verbs: Reform route related part in IB-core cma
>   IB/Verbs: Reform mcast related part in IB-core cma
>   IB/Verbs: Reserve legacy transport type in 'dev_addr'
>   IB/Verbs: Reform cma_acquire_dev()
>   IB/Verbs: Reform rest part in IB-core cma
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mad()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_smi()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_cm()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_iw_cm()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_sa()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_ib_mcast()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_read_multi_sge()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_af_ib()
>   IB/Verbs: Use management helper cap_eth_ah()
>   IB/Verbs: Clean up rdma_ib_or_iboe()
>   IB/Verbs: Cleanup rdma_node_get_transport()
> 
>  drivers/infiniband/core/agent.c              |   2 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c                 |  20 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c                | 282 ++++++++++++---------------
>  drivers/infiniband/core/device.c             |   1 +
>  drivers/infiniband/core/mad.c                |  43 ++--
>  drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c          |  12 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c           |  30 +--
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucm.c                |   3 +-
>  drivers/infiniband/core/ucma.c               |  25 +--
>  drivers/infiniband/core/user_mad.c           |  26 ++-
>  drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c              |  31 +--
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100/c2_provider.c |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c  |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/provider.c       |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_hca.c        |   6 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_iverbs.h     |   3 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ehca/ehca_main.c       |   1 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ipath/ipath_verbs.c    |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c            |  10 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c            |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c        |   6 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_main.c   |   1 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.c  |   6 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/ocrdma_verbs.h  |   3 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_verbs.c        |   7 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_main.c  |   1 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.c |   6 +
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/usnic_ib_verbs.h |   2 +
>  drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c    |  15 +-
>  include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                      | 169 +++++++++++++++-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_recvfrom.c      |   4 +-
>  net/sunrpc/xprtrdma/svc_rdma_transport.c     |  47 ++---
>  33 files changed, 503 insertions(+), 301 deletions(-)
>