From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>
To: longli@microsoft.com
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Ajay Sharma <sharmaajay@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net/mana: add version information for dependencies
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 15:52:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a2a4864-4679-ce55-eab9-4d1a355c18e8@amd.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1674181168-31167-1-git-send-email-longli@linuxonhyperv.com>
On 1/20/2023 2:19 AM, longli@linuxonhyperv.com wrote:
> From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
>
> The required dependencies for mana from rdma-core and Linux kernel have
> been released. Add those information to the doc.
>
> Fixes: 517ed6e2d590 ("net/mana: add basic driver with build environment")
> Signed-off-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mana.rst | 8 +++-----
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
> index 005c0b2ca7..341146c4e7 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mana.rst
> @@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ and must be installed separately:
> It allows slow and privileged operations
> (context initialization, hardware resources allocations)
> to be managed by the kernel and fast operations to never leave user space.
> + The minimum required rdma-core version is v44.
>
> In most cases, rdma-core is shipped as a package with an OS distribution.
> User can also install the upstream version of the rdma-core from
> @@ -39,15 +40,14 @@ and must be installed separately:
> Low-level user space driver library
> for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter devices,
> it is automatically loaded by libibverbs.
> -
> - The support of MANA is not merged in rdma-core 42.
> + The minimum required version of rdma-core with libmana is v44.
>
> - **Kernel modules**
>
> They provide the kernel-side verbs API and low level device drivers
> that manage actual hardware initialization
> and resources sharing with user space processes.
> - The minimum required Linux kernel version is 6.1.
> + The minimum required Linux kernel version is 6.2.
>
Hi Long,
Linux 6.2 seems release, can you please confirm required dependency is
part of 6.2 release.
> Unlike most other PMDs, these modules must remain loaded
> and bound to their devices:
> @@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ and must be installed separately:
> - mana_ib: InifiniBand device driver.
> - ib_uverbs: user space driver for verbs (entry point for libibverbs).
>
> - The support of MANA is planned in Linux 6.2.
> -
> Driver compilation and testing
> ------------------------------
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-20 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-01-20 2:19 longli
2023-01-20 2:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] net/mana: enable driver by default longli
2023-03-08 11:00 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-02-20 15:52 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2023-02-21 17:26 ` [PATCH 1/2] net/mana: add version information for dependencies Long Li
2023-02-22 0:09 ` Ferruh Yigit
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