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authorJack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>2012-08-03 08:40:45 +0000
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2012-09-30 20:33:34 -0700
commit0a9a01884d447c216eff75f8f274a0a3e82c7cee (patch)
treec25b38c66c4d26c71b82c65a558316eeb4419231 /MAINTAINERS
parent37bfc7c1e83f1589bcdc5918c7216422662644ee (diff)
mlx4: MAD_IFC paravirtualization
The MAD_IFC firmware command fulfills two functions. First, it is used in the QP0/QP1 MAD-handling flow to obtain information from the FW (for answering queries), and for setting variables in the HCA (MAD SET packets). For this, MAD_IFC should provide the FW (physical) view of the data. This is the view that OpenSM needs. We call this the "network view". In the second case, MAD_IFC is used by various verbs to obtain data regarding the local HCA (e.g., ib_query_device()). We call this the "host view". This data needs to be paravirtualized. MAD_IFC therefore needs a wrapper function, and also needs another flag indicating whether it should provide the network view (when it is called by ib_process_mad in special-qp packet handling), or the host view (when it is called while implementing a verb). There are currently 2 flag parameters in mlx4_MAD_IFC already: ignore_bkey and ignore_mkey. These two parameters are replaced by a single "mad_ifc_flags" parameter, with different bits set for each flag. A third flag is added: "network-view/host-view". Signed-off-by: Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
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