Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:42:54 +0300 | Subject | Re: [ofa-general] ***SPAM*** InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.27 | From | Tziporet Koren <> |
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Roland Dreier wrote: > Core: > > - I'm waiting to merge the RDMA_CM_EVENT_ADDR_CHANGE changes that > depend on core networking changes until such changes are upstream. > Or, please remind me when that happens. > > - Jack's XRC patch set. I think we're getting closer to converging > here, and I hope to get this merged but we're getting down to the > wire, so we'll see. > I hope we can get those in > HW specific: > > - Yevgeny's mlx4 changes. We'll see how much time is left after I > get done with XRC (which is before this on my list) but to be > honest I'm not sure how mergeable a lot of this is without the > mlx4_en patches that actually use it. > We just posted the mlx4_en patches, and we need to coordinate the merge of them together > - I've been working on memory management extensions support for mlx4, > but I'm not sure if it will be ready in time. Firmware for this > may not be released for a while so it ain't urgent anyway. > We are testing the patches and we already have FW that enable them. I agree its not urgent but it would be good to have it, so ULPs that are interested can be tested over IB too. > Here are a few topics that I believe will not be ready in time for the > 2.6.27 window and will need to wait for 2.6.28 at least: > > - Multiple CQ event vector support. No one has convinced me that we > know how ULPs or userspace apps should decide which vector to use, > and hence little progress has been made since we deferred this > during the 2.6.23 merge window. > We should progress this one even if we missed 2.6.27, especially we need it for RSS, and I know also RDS can gain from it.
Tziporet
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