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SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 01/26] IB/Verbs: Implement new callback query_transport()


On 04/24/2015 05:12 PM, Liran Liss wrote:
>> From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma-
>>
> [snip]
>> 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,
>
> Remove RDMA_TRANSPORT_IBOE - it is not a transport.
> ROCE uses IBTA transport.
>
> If any code should test for ROCE should invoke a specific helper, e.g., rdma_protocol_iboe().
> This is what you currently call "rdma_tech_iboe" is patch 02/26.
>
> I think that pretty much everybody agrees that rdma_protocol_*() is a better name than rdma_tech_*(), right?
> So, let's change this.

Sure, sounds reasonable now, about the IBOE, we still need it to
separate the port support IB/ETH without the check on link-layer,
So what about a new enum on protocol type?

Like:

enum rdma_protocol {
RDMA_PROTOCOL_IB,
RDMA_PROTOCOL_IBOE,
RDMA_PROTOCOL_IWARP,
RDMA_PROTOCOL_USNIC_UDP
};

So we could use query_protocol() to ask device provide the protocol
type, and there will be no mixing with the legacy transport type
anymore :-)

Regards,
Michael Wang

>
> The semantics are: "check that a link supports a certain wire protocol, or a set of wire protocols", where 'certain'
> refers to the specific helper...
>
>


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