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author | Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il> | 2012-08-03 08:40:45 +0000 |
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committer | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2012-09-30 20:33:34 -0700 |
commit | 0a9a01884d447c216eff75f8f274a0a3e82c7cee (patch) | |
tree | c25b38c66c4d26c71b82c65a558316eeb4419231 /MAINTAINERS | |
parent | 37bfc7c1e83f1589bcdc5918c7216422662644ee (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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