[HEADS UP] - OFED/RDMA stack update

Navdeep Parhar
2018-03-18T22:56:19Z

On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 09:03:40PM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky
wrote:
> On 03/17/18 20:52, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> >Hold your horses.  Do you have confirmation from the affected party
that
> >the shims are adequate for them?  I have been waiting for that before
> >looking at this branch.
>
> Hi Navdeep,
>
> Mellanox has received an API list from at least one party, and has taken
the
> action to support all the required APIs.
>
> >Is the iw_cxgbe breakage a simple merge conflict as previously
discussed
> >or do the shims require driver changes?
>
> It is a merge conflict. The code already compiles in 12-current.

Ok that doesn't sound that bad.  I'll take a look early this week.

Regards,
Navdeep

>
> >If they don't then it should be
> >possible to drop the iw_cxgbe from head into this branch and it should
> >just work, is that correct?
>
> Yes, it shouldn't be too hard to do and I would appreciate if Chelsio
could
> throw some resources at this ASAP. I believe the new code will benefit
> everyone using Infiniband/RoCE and iWarp with FreeBSD.
>
> --HPS
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