From: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranjeiro@6wind.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC] mlx5: update NIC documentation on RDMA core version
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 08:52:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180103075201.kxlaxnngpx2ngaf4@laranjeiro-vm.dev.6wind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180102214421.22707-1-stephen@networkplumber.org>
Hi Stephen,
Seems you missed an important point, MLNX_OFED is still supported with
this driver allowing it to work on stable releases like strict debian 9
i.e. without updating the Linux kernel.
On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 01:44:21PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The current driver requires v16. It will not work or build with
> the older version (as in Debian stable). Note: libmlx5 is rolled
> into rdma-core in current versions.
>
> Mlx4 probably requires similar documentation update.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 18 +++++++++---------
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> index f9558da89b61..603dd4e9c1cd 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
> @@ -299,26 +299,26 @@ Prerequisites
> -------------
>
> This driver relies on external libraries and kernel drivers for resources
> -allocations and initialization. The following dependencies are not part of
> -DPDK and must be installed separately:
> +allocations and initialization. The following packages come from the
> +Linux RDMA core https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core. The current
> +version of this driver requires version version 16 or later.
Not only, they are also present in MLNX_OFED >= 4.2 for regular
distribution without updating the Linux Kernel. In such situation
installing RDMA-Core is useless.
> - **libibverbs**
>
> User space Verbs framework used by librte_pmd_mlx5. This library provides
> - a generic interface between the kernel and low-level user space drivers
> - such as libmlx5.
> + a generic interface between the kernel and low-level user space drivers.
>
> 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.
>
> -- **libmlx5**
> + The development package (libibverbs-dev or libibverbs-devel) are necessary
> + for compilation.
Not really MLNX_OFED >= 4.2 or libibverbs-dev or libibverbs-devel are
necessary. People using MLNX_OFED must not install libibverbs-dev(el)
packages.
> - Low-level user space driver library for Mellanox ConnectX-4/ConnectX-5
> - devices, it is automatically loaded by libibverbs.
> +- **rdma-core**
>
> - This library basically implements send/receive calls to the hardware
> - queues.
> + The basic userspace infrastructure for interaction with RDMA subsystem
> + on Linux.
>
> - **Kernel modules**
>
> --
> 2.15.1
Keep both situation in the documentation for costumers who uses:
- stable distribution in conjunction with MLNX_OFED
- stable distribution with updated Linux kernel using RDMA-Core.
Both are supported.
Thanks,
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-03 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-02 21:44 Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-03 7:52 ` Nelio Laranjeiro [this message]
2018-01-03 15:23 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-04 7:54 ` Nélio Laranjeiro
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