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SubjectRe: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.26 (what's in infiniband.git)
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 > We want to add send with invalidate & mask compare and swap.
> Eli will be able to send the patches next week and since they are
> small I think they can be in for 2.6.26

Send with invalidate should be OK. Let's see about the masked atomics
stuff -- we have a ton of new verbs and I think we might want to slow
down and make sure it all makes sense.

> What about the split CQ for UD mode? It's improved the IPoIB
> performance for small messages significantly.

Oh yeah... I'll try to get that in too.

> mlx4- we plan to send patches for the low level driver only to enable
> mlx4_en. These only affect our low level driver.

No problem in principle, let's see the actual patches.

> I think we should try to push for XEC in 2.6.26 since there are
> already MPI implementation that use it and this ties them to use OFED
> only.
> Also this feature is stable and now being defined in IBTA
> Not taking it causing changes between OFED and the kernel and your
> libibverbs and we wish to avoid such gaps.
> Is there any thing we can do to help and make it into 2.6.26?

I don't have a good feeling that the user-kernel interface is well
thought out, so I want to consider XRC + ehca LL stuff + new iWARP verbs
and make sure we have something that makes sense for the future.

- R.


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