RE: [Patch v4 00/17] Introduce Microsoft Azure Network Adatper (MANA) PMD

[Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>]

> Subject: Re: [Patch v4 00/17] Introduce Microsoft Azure Network Adatper
> (MANA) PMD
> 
> On 7/9/2022 12:49 AM, longli@linuxonhyperv.com wrote:
> 
> >
> > From: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
> >
> > MANA is a network interface card to be used in the Azure cloud
> environment.
> > MANA provides safe access to user memory through memory registration.
> > It has IOMMU built into the hardware.
> >
> > MANA uses IB verbs and RDMA layer to configure hardware resources. It
> > requires the corresponding RDMA kernel-mode and user-mode drivers.
> >
> > The MANA RDMA kernel-mode driver is being reviewed at:
> >
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> > The MANA RDMA user-mode driver is being reviewed at:
> >
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> Hi Long,
> 
> How are the dependencies are progressing? Is there anything blocker for
> DPDK upstream?

Hi Ferruh,

The kernel and rdma-core user-mode patch submissions are in progress. They are currently at v4.

Long

> 
> 
> > Long Li (17):
> >    net/mana: add basic driver, build environment and doc
> >    net/mana: add device configuration and stop
> >    net/mana: add function to report support ptypes
> >    net/mana: add link update
> >    net/mana: add function for device removal interrupts
> >    net/mana: add device info
> >    net/mana: add function to configure RSS
> >    net/mana: add function to configure RX queues
> >    net/mana: add function to configure TX queues
> >    net/mana: implement memory registration
> >    net/mana: implement the hardware layer operations
> >    net/mana: add function to start/stop TX queues
> >    net/mana: add function to start/stop RX queues
> >    net/mana: add function to receive packets
> >    net/mana: add function to send packets
> >    net/mana: add function to start/stop device
> >    net/mana: add function to report queue stats
> >
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