Messages in this thread | | | From | Roland Dreier <> | Subject | Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/iWARP/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.26 (what's in infiniband.git) | Date | Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:19:17 -0700 |
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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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