From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga01.intel.com (mga01.intel.com [192.55.52.88]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EB3DE3 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:07:19 +0200 (CEST) Received: from fmsmga003.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.29]) by fmsmga101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 18 Sep 2017 02:07:18 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.42,412,1500966000"; d="scan'208";a="901266049" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.237.220.57]) ([10.237.220.57]) by FMSMGA003.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 18 Sep 2017 02:07:16 -0700 To: Shachar Beiser , "dev@dpdk.org" Cc: Adrien Mazarguil , =?UTF-8?Q?N=c3=a9lio_Laranjeiro?= References: <6406a779-1140-65d3-efff-141c66d1739c@intel.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 10:07:16 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/mlx5: support upstream rdma-core X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 09:07:20 -0000 On 9/17/2017 8:31 AM, Shachar Beiser wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com] >> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2017 4:47 PM >> To: Shachar Beiser ; dev@dpdk.org >> Cc: Adrien Mazarguil ; Nélio Laranjeiro >> >> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] net/mlx5: support upstream rdma-core >> >> On 9/14/2017 2:34 PM, Shachar Beiser wrote: >>> This removes the dependency on specific Mellanox OFED libraries by >>> using the upstream rdma-core and linux upstream community code. >> >> Would you mind mentioning what is the difference between "specific >> Mellanox OFED libraries" and "upstream rdma-core"? If not in the >> documentation, at least in mail list for interested people? >> >> Does it make sense to put this update into release notes? >> >> Thanks, >> ferruh >> > > Hi Ferruh, > > Both packages, rdma-core upstream & Mellanox OFED are Linux user-space packages : > 1. Rdma-core is the Linux upstream user-space package. > 2. Mellanox OFED is the Mellanox's Linux user-space package. > The difference is the APIs . We shall explain that difference in the > release notes . The difference can be too much detail for release notes, I believe it is good to mention in release notes the dependency requirement change, as above commit log. But this commit log can have the detail. > > -Shachar Beiser. > >>> >>> --- >>> I have squashed : >>> [PATCH v2 3/3] “net/mlx5: fix interrupt enable return” >>> >> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdpd >> k >>> >> .org%2Fdev%2Fpatchwork%2Fpatch%2F28380%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cshach >> arbe%40m >>> >> ellanox.com%7Cc79d7690cb454f8dd41508d4fb771dea%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9b >> a6a4d >>> >> 149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C636409936407431479&sdata=T5wgSUeCx1tzM9Z >> UnBAauNt >>> iG4djfIpOJZOj%2FWM6v4Y%3D&reserved=0 >>> into this patch >>> >>> a. Compile with rdma-core commit f11292efd541 ("Merge pull request >>> #202") b. Tested with linux kernel 4.13-rc4 c. For performance testing >>> recommended to wait till kernel 4.14 >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Shachar Beiser >> >> <...> >