- 24 Jun, 2019 18 commits
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Israel Rukshin authored
IB_WR_REG_SIG_MR is not needed after IB_WR_REG_MR_INTEGRITY was used. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
Replace the old signature handover API with the new one. The new API simplifes PI handover code complexity for ULPs and improve performance. For RW API it will reduce the maximum number of work requests per task and the need of dealing with multiple MRs (and their registrations and invalidations) per task. All the mappings and registration of the data and the protection buffers is done by the LLD using a single WR and a special MR type (IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY) for the PI handover operation. The setup of the tested benchmark (using iSER ULP): - 2 servers with 24 cores (1 initiator and 1 target) - ConnectX-4/ConnectX-5 adapters - 24 target sessions with 1 LUN each - ramdisk backstore - PI active Performance results running fio (24 jobs, 128 iodepth) using write_generate=1 and read_verify=1 (w/w.o patch): bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write) ---- ---------- ---------- 512 1243.3K/1182.3K 1725.1K/1680.2K 4k 571233/528835 743293/748259 32k 72388/71086 71789/93573 Using write_generate=0 and read_verify=0 (w/w.o patch): bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write) ---- ---------- ---------- 512 1572.1K/1427.2K 1823.5K/1724.3K 4k 921992/916194 753772/768267 32k 75052/73960 73180/95484 There is a performance degradation when writing big block sizes. Degradation is caused by the complexity of combining multiple indirections and perform RDMA READ operation from it. This will be fixed in the following patches by reducing the indirections if possible. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
This is a preparation for adding new signature API to the rw-API. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
Protect the case that a ULP tries to allocate a QP with signature enabled flag while the LLD doesn't support this feature. While we're here, also move integrity_en attribute from mlx5_qp to ib_qp as a preparation for adding new integrity API to the rw-API (that is part of ib_core module). Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
Rename IB_QP_CREATE_SIGNATURE_EN to IB_QP_CREATE_INTEGRITY_EN and IB_DEVICE_SIGNATURE_HANDOVER to IB_DEVICE_INTEGRITY_HANDOVER. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
This is a preparation for adding new signature API to the rw-API. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
After decreasing WRs array size from 7 to 3 it is more readable to give each WR a descriptive name. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
Using this new API reduces iSER code complexity. It also reduces the maximum number of work requests per task and the need of dealing with multiple MRs (and their registrations and invalidations) per task. It is done by using a single WR and a special MR type (IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY) for PI operation. The setup of the tested benchmark: - 2 servers with 24 cores (1 initiator and 1 target) - 24 target sessions with 1 LUN each - ramdisk backstore - PI active Performance results running fio (24 jobs, 128 iodepth) using write_generate=0 and read_verify=0 (w/w.o patch): bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write) ---- ---------- ---------- 512 1236.6K/1164.3K 1357.2K/1332.8K 1k 1196.5K/1163.8K 1348.4K/1262.7K 2k 1016.7K/921950 1003.7K/931230 4k 662728/600545 595423/501513 8k 385954/384345 333775/277090 16k 222864/222820 170317/170671 32k 116869/114896 82331/82244 64k 55205/54931 40264/40021 Using write_generate=1 and read_verify=1 (w/w.o patch): bs IOPS(read) IOPS(write) ---- ---------- ---------- 512 1090.1K/1030.9K 1303.9K/1101.4K 1k 1057.7K/904583 1318.4K/988085 2k 965226/638799 1008.6K/692514 4k 555479/410151 542414/414517 8k 298675/224964 264729/237508 16k 133485/122481 164625/138647 32k 74329/67615 80143/78743 64k 35716/35519 39294/37334 We get performance improvement at all block sizes. The most significant improvement is when writing 4k bs (almost 30% more iops). Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
This new WR will be used to perform PI (protection information) handover using the new API. Using the new API, the user will post a single WR that will internally perform all the needed actions to complete PI operation. This new WR will use a memory region that was allocated as IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY and was mapped using ib_map_mr_sg_pi to perform the registration. In the old API, in order to perform a signature handover operation, each ULP should perform the following: 1. Map and register the data buffers. 2. Map and register the protection buffers. 3. Post a special reg WR to configure the signature handover operation layout. 4. Invalidate the signature memory key. 5. Invalidate protection buffers memory key. 6. Invalidate data buffers memory key. In the new API, the mapping of both data and protection buffers is performed using a single call to ib_map_mr_sg_pi function. Also the registration of the buffers and the configuration of the signature operation layout is done by a single new work request called IB_WR_REG_MR_INTEGRITY. This patch implements this operation for mlx5 devices that are capable to offload data integrity generation/validation while performing the actual buffer transfer. This patch will not remove the old signature API that is used by the iSER initiator and target drivers. This will be done in the future. In the internal implementation, for each IB_WR_REG_MR_INTEGRITY work request, we are using a single UMR operation to register both data and protection buffers using KLM's. Afterwards, another UMR operation will describe the strided block format. These will be followed by 2 SET_PSV operations to set the memory/wire domains initial signature parameters passed by the user. In the end of the whole transaction, only the signature memory key (the one that exposed for the RDMA operation) will be invalidated. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
Explicitly pass the sig_mr and the access flags for the mkey segment configuration. This function will be used also in the new signature API, so modify it in order to use it in both APIs. This is a preparation commit before adding new signature API. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
UMR ctrl segment flags can vary between UMR operations. for example, using inline UMR or adding free/not-free checks for a memory key. This is a preparation commit before adding new signature API that will not need not-free checks for the internal memory key during the UMR operation. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
PI offload (protection information) is a feature that each RDMA provider can implement differently. Thus, introduce new device attribute to define the maximal length of the page list for PI fast registration operation. For example, mlx5 driver uses a single internal MR to map both data and protection SGL's, so it's equal to max_fast_reg_page_list_len / 2. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
mlx5_ib_map_mr_sg_pi() will map the PI and data dma mapped SG lists to the mlx5 memory region prior to the registration operation. In the new API, the mlx5 driver will allocate an internal memory region for the UMR operation to register both PI and data SG lists. The internal MR will use KLM mode in order to map 2 (possibly non-contiguous/non-align) SG lists using 1 memory key. In the new API, each ULP will use 1 memory region for the signature operation (instead of 3 in the old API). This memory region will have a key that will be exposed to remote server to perform RDMA operation. The internal memory key that will map the SG lists will stay private. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
This element will describe the needed characteristics for the signature operation per signature enabled memory region (type IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY). Also add meta_length attribute to ib_sig_attrs structure for saving the mapped metadata length (needed for the new API implementation). Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
This function will map the previously dma mapped SG lists for PI (protection information) and data to an appropriate memory region for future registration. The given MR must be allocated as IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Israel Rukshin authored
This is a preparation for signature verbs API re-design. In the new design a single MR with IB_MR_TYPE_INTEGRITY type will be used to perform the needed mapping for data integrity operations. Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
This is a preparation for the signature verbs API change. This change is needed since the MR type will define, in the upcoming patches, the need for allocating internal resources in LLD for signature handover related operations. It will also help to make sure that signature related functions are called with an appropriate MR type and fail otherwise. Also introduce new mr types IB_MR_TYPE_USER, IB_MR_TYPE_DMA and IB_MR_TYPE_DM for correctness. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Max Gurtovoy authored
Ease the exhausted ib_verbs.h file and make the code more readable. Signed-off-by: Max Gurtovoy <maxg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Israel Rukshin <israelr@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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- 21 Jun, 2019 7 commits
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Firas Jahjah authored
For debugging purposes, print destination address if failed to create AH. Signed-off-by: Firas Jahjah <firasj@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Gal Pressman authored
The EFA driver is written with success oriented flows in mind, meaning that functions should mostly end with a return 0 statement. Error flows return their error value on their own instead of assuming that the function will return the error at the end. This commit fixes a bunch of functions that were not aligned with this behavior. Reviewed-by: Firas JahJah <firasj@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Gal Pressman authored
Use the ib_umem_find_best_pgsz() and rdma_for_each_block() API when registering an MR instead of coding it in the driver. ib_umem_find_best_pgsz() is used to find the best suitable page size which replaces the existing efa_cont_pages() implementation. rdma_for_each_block() is used to iterate the umem in aligned contiguous memory blocks. Reviewed-by: Firas JahJah <firasj@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Yossi Leybovich <sleybo@amazon.com> Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <galpress@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Mike Marciniszyn authored
Convert all completions to use the new completion routine that fixes a race between post send and completion where fields from a SWQE can be read after SWQE has been freed. This patch also addresses issues reported in https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=155656897409107&w=2. The reserved operation path has no need for any barrier. The barrier for the other path is addressed by the smp_load_acquire() barrier. Cc: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com> Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Mike Marciniszyn authored
There is opencoded send completion logic all over all the drivers. We need to convert to this routine to enforce ordering issues for completions. This routine fixes an ordering issue where the read of the SWQE fields necessary for creating the completion can race with a post send if the post send catches a send queue at the edge of being full. Is is possible in that situation to read SWQE fields that are being written. This new routine insures that SWQE fields are read prior to advancing the index that post send uses to determine queue fullness. Reviewed-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe authored
The ib_dma_unmap_page() must match the length of the ib_dma_map_page(), which is based on odp_shift. Otherwise iommu resources under this API will not be properly freed. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe authored
Discovered this was available already. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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- 20 Jun, 2019 7 commits
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Leon Romanovsky authored
The "end" variable is declared as unsigned and can't be negative, it leads to the situation where timeout limit is not honored, so let's convert logic to ensure that loop is bounded. drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hw_v1.c: In function _hns_roce_v1_clear_hem_: drivers/infiniband/hw/hns/hns_roce_hw_v1.c:2471:12: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Wtype-limits] 2471 | if (end < 0) { | ^ Fixes: 669cefb6 ("RDMA/hns: Remove jiffies operation in disable interrupt context") Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Leon Romanovsky authored
Update ib_umem_release() to behave similarly to kfree() and allow submitting NULL pointer as safe input to this function. Fixes: a52c8e24 ("RDMA: Clean destroy CQ in drivers do not return errors") Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Lang Cheng authored
During removing the driver, we needs to notify the roce engine to stop working immediately,and symmetrically recycle the hardware resources requested during initialization. The hardware provides a command called function clear that can package these operations,so that the driver can only focus on releasing resources that applied from the operating system. This patch implements the call of this command. Signed-off-by: Lang Cheng <chenglang@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Leon Romanovsky authored
All callers of destroy WQ are always success and there is no need to check their return value, so convert destroy_wq to be void. Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Lijun Ou authored
hip08 can support up to 32768 wqes in one qp. currently if the wqe num is larger than 16384, the driver will lead a calltrace as follows. [21361.393725] Call trace: [21361.398605] hns_roce_v2_modify_qp+0xbcc/0x1360 [hns_roce_hw_v2] [21361.410627] hns_roce_modify_qp+0x1d8/0x2f8 [hns_roce] [21361.420906] _ib_modify_qp+0x70/0x118 [21361.428222] ib_modify_qp+0x14/0x1c [21361.435193] rt_ktest_modify_qp+0xb8/0x650 [rdma_test] [21361.445472] exec_modify_qp_cmd+0x110/0x4d8 [rdma_test] [21361.455924] rt_ktest_dispatch_cmd_3+0xa94/0x2edc [rdma_test] [21361.467422] rt_ktest_dispatch_cmd_2+0x9c/0x108 [rdma_test] [21361.478570] rt_ktest_dispatch_cmd+0x138/0x904 [rdma_test] [21361.489545] rt_ktest_dev_write+0x328/0x4b0 [rdma_test] [21361.499998] __vfs_write+0x38/0x15c [21361.506966] vfs_write+0xa8/0x1a0 [21361.513586] ksys_write+0x50/0xb0 [21361.520206] sys_write+0xc/0x14 [21361.526479] el0_svc_naked+0x30/0x34 [21361.533622] Code: 1ac10841 d37d7c22 0b000021 d37df021 (f86268c0) [21361.545815] ---[ end trace e2a1feb2c3d7f13c ]--- When the wqe num is larger than 16384, hns_roce_table_find will return an invalid mtt, this will lead an kernel paging requet error if the driver try to access it. It's the mtt design defect which can't support up to the max wqe num of hip08. This patch fixs it by replacing mtt with mtr for wqe. Fixes: 926a01dc ("RDMA/hns: Add QP operations support for hip08 SoC") Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <wangxi11@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Lijun Ou authored
Currently, the code for getting umem and kmem buffers exist many files, this patch adds a group interfaces to simplify the buffers getting flow. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <wangxi11@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Lijun Ou authored
Currently, the MTT(memory translate table) design required a buffer space must has the same hopnum, but the hip08 hw can support mixed hopnum config in a buffer space. This patch adds the MTR(memory translate region) design for supporting mixed multihop. Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <wangxi11@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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- 19 Jun, 2019 8 commits
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Doug Ledford authored
Sort the netlink policy array by netlink attribute name. This will make it easier in the future to find the entry you are looking for when you need to make changes, or to make sure you don't add the same entry twice. Fix the whitespace while we are there. Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Maor Gottlieb authored
If FDB flow tables support decap operation, enable it on creation, This allows to perform decapsulation of tunnelled packets by steering rules. If FDB flow tables support reformat operation, enable it on creation as well. Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Maor Gottlieb authored
When flow steering is created, then the encap support should consider the eswitch encap mode. If the eswitch flow table (FDB) supports encap then it shouldn't be supported on NIC RX flow tables. Fixes: 4adda112 ('RDMA/mlx5: Enable decap and packet reformat on flow tables') Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Doug Ledford authored
Take mlx5-next so we can take a dependent two patch series next. Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe authored
If invalidate_start returns with EAGAIN then the umem_rwsem needs to be unlocked as no invalidate_end will be called. Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Fixes: ca748c39 ("RDMA/umem: Get rid of per_mm->notifier_count") Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe authored
Update the struct ib_client for all modules exporting cdevs related to the ibdevice to also implement RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_GET_CHARDEV. All cdevs are now autoloadable and discoverable by userspace over netlink instead of relying on sysfs. uverbs also exposes the DRIVER_ID for drivers that are able to support driver id binding in rdma-core. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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Jason Gunthorpe authored
Allow userspace to issue a netlink query against the ib_device for something like "uverbs" and get back the char dev name, inode major/minor, and interface ABI information for "uverbs0". Since we are now in netlink this can also trigger a module autoload to make the uverbs device come into existence. Largely this will let us replace searching and reading inside sysfs to setup devices, and provides an alternative (using driver_id) to device name based provider binding for things like rxe. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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