svn commit: r278886 - in head/sys: conf contrib/rdma/krping dev/cxgb/ulp/iw_cxgb dev/cxgbe/iw_cxgbe modules/ibcore modules/mlx4ib ofed/drivers/infiniband/core ofed/drivers/infiniband/debug ofed/dri...

[Navdeep Parhar]

On 02/17/15 12:15, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 02/17/15 18:34, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:40:28AM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>>> Author: hselasky
>>> Date: Tue Feb 17 08:40:27 2015
>>> New Revision: 278886
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278886
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>    Update the infiniband stack to Mellanox's OFED version 2.1.
>>
>> What version of the Linux kernel does this match?
>
> It is very close to the latest 3.xxx Linux kernel.

Let's please try and get an exact version the next time there's a big 
overhaul like this.  It is important to be able to pinpoint the exact 
version of upstream that our stuff is supposed to be API/KPI compatible 
with.

Regards,
Navdeep

>>
>>>
>>>    Highlights:
>>>     - Multiple verbs API updates
>>>     - Support for RoCE, RDMA over ethernet
>>>
>>>    All hardware drivers depending on the common infiniband stack has
>>> been
>>>    updated aswell.
>>>
>>>    Discussed with:    np @
>>>    Sponsored by:    Mellanox Technologies
>>>    MFC after:    1 month
>>
>> My reading of the project's MFC policy is that changes to the verbs
>> cannot be MFC'd as that's a KPI/API change.
>
> I agree, and if this will break binary compatibility and that is a
> requirement, I will not MFC.
>
>>
>> I still plan to test these changes with some iWARP gear later this week.
>> I thought you were going to wait till then, but, oh well.
>
> Thank you!
>
> --HPS
>
>