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From: "Nélio Laranjeiro" <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>
Cc: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>,
	dev@dpdk.org, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <mleitner@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] net/mlx: enhance rdma-core glue configuration
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 17:52:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180202165208.iptc4vit4wbdfnj6@laranjeiro-vm.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180202164050.13017-1-adrien.mazarguil@6wind.com>

On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:46:10PM +0100, Adrien Mazarguil wrote:
> The decision to deliver mlx4/mlx5 rdma-core glue plug-ins separately instead
> of generating them at run time due to security concerns [1] led to a few
> issues:
> 
> - They must be present on the file system before running DPDK.
> - Their location must be known to the dynamic linker.
> - Their names overlap and ABI compatibility is not guaranteed, which may
>   lead to crashes.
> 
> This series addresses the above by adding version information to plug-ins
> and taking CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH into account to locate them on the file
> system.
> 
> [1] http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/089617.html
> 
> v2 changes:
> 
> - Fixed extra "\n" in glue file name generation (although it didn't break
>   functionality).
> 
> Adrien Mazarguil (4):
>   net/mlx: add debug checks to glue structure
>   net/mlx: fix missing includes for rdma-core glue
>   net/mlx: version rdma-core glue libraries
>   net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable
> 
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst     | 17 ++++++++++++
>  doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst     | 14 ++++++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx4/Makefile    |  8 ++++--
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4.c      | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_glue.c |  4 +++
>  drivers/net/mlx4/mlx4_glue.h |  9 +++++++
>  drivers/net/mlx5/Makefile    |  8 ++++--
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c      | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_glue.c |  1 +
>  drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_glue.h |  7 +++++
>  10 files changed, 176 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.11.0

For the series,

Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>

-- 
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-02 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 15:16 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 " Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 1/4] net/mlx: add debug checks to glue structure Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 2/4] net/mlx: fix missing includes for rdma-core glue Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 3/4] net/mlx: version rdma-core glue libraries Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1 4/4] net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:46 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] net/mlx: enhance rdma-core glue configuration Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] net/mlx: add debug checks to glue structure Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 12:27     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 13:31       ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] net/mlx: fix missing includes for rdma-core glue Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] net/mlx: version rdma-core glue libraries Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-04 14:29     ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-02-05 11:24       ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 12:13         ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 12:24           ` Van Haaren, Harry
2018-02-05 12:43             ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 12:58             ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 13:44               ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 14:16                 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-02-05 14:33                   ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 14:37                   ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 14:59                     ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 15:29                       ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-05 15:54                         ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-05 17:06                           ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2018-02-06 11:06                             ` Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:46   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] net/mlx: make rdma-core glue path configurable Adrien Mazarguil
2018-02-02 16:52   ` Nélio Laranjeiro [this message]
2018-02-06 11:31   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] net/mlx: enhance rdma-core glue configuration Shahaf Shuler

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