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2016-12-12	IB/rxe: Remove unneeded cast in rxe_srq_from_attr()	Dan Carpenter	1	-1/+1
	It makes me nervous when we cast pointer parameters. I would estimate that around 50% of the time, it indicates a bug. Here the cast is not needed becaue u32 and and unsigned int are the same thing. Removing the cast makes the code more robust and future proof in case any of the types change. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Acked-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
2016-08-04	Soft RoCE driver	Moni Shoua	1	-0/+193
	Soft RoCE (RXE) - The software RoCE driver ib_rxe implements the RDMA transport and registers to the RDMA core device as a kernel verbs provider. It also implements the packet IO layer. On the other hand ib_rxe registers to the Linux netdev stack as a udp encapsulating protocol, in that case RDMA, for sending and receiving packets over any Ethernet device. This yields a RDMA transport over the UDP/Ethernet network layer forming a RoCEv2 compatible device. The configuration procedure of the Soft RoCE drivers requires binding to any existing Ethernet network device. This is done with /sys interface. A userspace Soft RoCE library (librxe) provides user applications the ability to run with Soft RoCE devices. The use of rxe verbs ins user space requires the inclusion of librxe as a device specifics plug-in to libibverbs. librxe is packaged separately. Architecture: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ \| Application \| +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ \| libibverbs \| User +-----------------------------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ \| librxe \| \| HW RoCE lib \| +----------------+ +----------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------------+ +------------+ \| Sockets \| \| RDMA ULP \| +--------------+ +------------+ +--------------+ +---------------------+ \| TCP/IP \| \| ib_core \| +--------------+ +---------------------+ +------------+ +----------------+ Kernel \| ib_rxe \| \| HW RoCE driver \| +------------+ +----------------+ +------------------------------------+ \| NIC driver \| +------------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ \| Application \| +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ \| libibverbs \| User +-----------------------------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ \| librxe \| \| HW RoCE lib \| +----------------+ +----------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +--------------+ +------------+ \| Sockets \| \| RDMA ULP \| +--------------+ +------------+ +--------------+ +---------------------+ \| TCP/IP \| \| ib_core \| +--------------+ +---------------------+ +------------+ +----------------+ Kernel \| ib_rxe \| \| HW RoCE driver \| +------------+ +----------------+ +------------------------------------+ \| NIC driver \| +------------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soft RoCE resources: [1[ https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev librxe - source code in Github [2] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home - Soft RoCE Wiki page [3] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev - Soft RoCE userspace library Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib <kamalh@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>