Creating a UD address handle from user-space or from the kernel-space,
when the link layer is ethernet, requires resolving the remote L3
address into a L2 address. Doing this from the kernel is easy because
the required ARP(IPv4) and ND6(IPv6) address resolving APIs are readily
available. In userspace such an interface does not exist and kernel
help is required.
It should be noted that in an IP-based GID environment, the GID itself
does not contain all the information needed to resolve the destination
IP address. For example information like VLAN ID and SCOPE ID, is not
part of the GID and must be fetched from the GID attributes. Therefore
a source GID should always be referred to as a GID index. Instead of
going through various racy steps to obtain information about the
GID attributes from user-space, this is now all done by the kernel.
This patch optimises the L3 to L2 address resolving using the existing
create address handle uverbs interface, retrieving back the L2 address
as an additional user-space information structure.
This commit combines the following Linux upstream commits:
IB/core: Let create_ah return extended response to user
IB/core: Change ib_resolve_eth_dmac to use it in create AH
IB/mlx5: Make create/destroy_ah available to userspace
IB/mlx5: Use kernel driver to help userspace create ah
IB/mlx5: Report that device has udata response in create_ah
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
iWarp and RoCE in ibcore. The selection of RDMA_PS_TCP can not be used
to indicate iWarp protocol use. Backport the proper IB device
capabilities from Linux upstream to distinguish between iWarp and
RoCE. Only allocate the additional socket required for iWarp for RDMA
IDs when at least one iWarp device present. This resolves
interopability issues between iWarp and RoCE in ibcore
Reviewed by: np @
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D12563
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
MFC after: 3 days
Remote DMA over Converged Ethernet, RoCE, for the ConnectX-4 series of
PCI express network cards.
There is currently no user-space support and this driver only supports
kernel side non-routable RoCE V1. The krping kernel module can be used
to test this driver. Full user-space support including RoCE V2 will be
added as part of the ongoing upgrade to ibcore from Linux 4.9. Otherwise
this driver is feature equivalent to mlx4ib(4). The mlx5ib(4) kernel
module will only be built when WITH_OFED=YES is specified.
MFC after: 2 weeks
Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies
