This patch series adds a driver for a paravirtual RDMA device. The
device is developed for VMware's Virtual Machines and allows existing RDMA
applications to continue to use existing Verbs API when deployed in VMs
on ESXi. We recently did a presentation in the OFA Workshop [1] regarding
this device.
Description and RDMA Support
============================
The virtual device is exposed as a dual function PCIe device. One part
is a virtual network device (VMXNet3) which provides networking properties
like MAC, IP addresses to the RDMA part of the device. The networking
properties are used to register GIDs required by RDMA applications to
communicate.
These patches add support and the all required infrastructure for
letting applications use such a device. We support the mandatory Verbs API as
well as the base memory management extensions (Local Inv, Send with Inv and
Fast Register Work Requests). We currently support both Reliable Connected
and Unreliable Datagram QPs but do not support Shared Receive Queues
(SRQs).
Also, we support the following types of Work Requests:
o Send/Receive (with or without Immediate Data)
o RDMA Write (with or without Immediate Data)
o RDMA Read
o Local Invalidate
o Send with Invalidate
o Fast Register Work Requests
This version only adds support for version 1 of RoCE. We will add RoCEv2
support in a future patch. We do support registration of both MAC-based
and IP-based GIDs. I have also created a git tree for our user-level driver
[2].
Testing
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We have tested this internally for various types of Guest OS - Red Hat,
Centos, Ubuntu 12.04/14.04/16.04, Oracle Enterprise Linux, SLES 12
using backported versions of this driver. The tests included several
runs of the performance tests (included with OFED), Intel MPI PingPong
benchmark on OpenMPI, krping for FRWRs. Mellanox has been kind enough
to test the backported version of the driver internally on their hardware
using a VMware provided ESX build. I have also applied and tested this
with Doug's k.o/for-4.9 branch (commit 5603910b). Note, that this patch
series should be applied all together. I split out the commits so that
it may be easier to review.
PVRDMA Resources
================
[1] OFA Workshop Presentation -
https://openfabrics.org/images/eventpresos/2016presentations/102parardma.pdf
[2] Libpvrdma User-level library -
http://git.openfabrics.org/?p=~aditr/libpvrdma.git;a=summary
Reviewed-by: Jorgen Hansen <jhansen@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: George Zhang <georgezhang@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Aditya Sarwade <asarwade@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Bryan Tan <bryantan@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adit Ranadive <aditr@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Adds a skeletal implementation of the qed* RoCE driver -
basically the ability to communicate with the qede driver and
receive notifications from it regarding various init/exit events.
Signed-off-by: Rajesh Borundia <rajesh.borundia@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Amrani <Ram.Amrani@cavium.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
This patch added Kconfig and Makefile for building RoCE module.
Signed-off-by: Wei Hu <xavier.huwei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Nenglong Zhao <zhaonenglong@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Lijun Ou <oulijun@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
The TODO list for the hfi1 driver was completed during 4.6. In addition
other objections raised (which are far beyond what was in the TODO list)
have been addressed as well. It is now time to remove the driver from
staging and into the drivers/infiniband sub-tree.
Reviewed-by: Jubin John <jubin.john@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
The ehca driver is only supported on IBM machines with a custom EBus.
As they have opted to build their newer machines using more industry
standard technology and haven't really been pushing EBus capable
machines for a while, this driver can now safely be moved to the
staging area and scheduled for eventual removal. This plan was brought
to IBM's attention and received their sign-off.
Cc: alexs@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: hnguyen@de.ibm.com
Cc: raisch@de.ibm.com
Cc: stefan.roscher@de.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
The HW hasn't been sold since 2005, and the SW has definite bit rot.
Its time to remove it. So move it to staging for a few releases and
then remove it after that.
Signed-off-by: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
It is now time for the ipath driver to begin to be phased out of the kernel.
This patch moves the ipath driver from the Infiniband sub tree to the staging
area where it will remain until the code is removed from the kernel in a few
releases.
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
It is not possible to build only the drivers/infiniband/hw/ (or ulp/)
subdirectory with command such as:
$ make ARCH=x86_64 O=./obj-x86_64/ drivers/infiniband/hw/
This fails with following error messages:
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `relocs'.
CHK include/config/kernel.release
Using /home/ydroneaud/src/linux as source for kernel
GEN /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/obj-x86_64/Makefile
CHK include/generated/uapi/linux/version.h
CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h
CALL /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
/home/ydroneaud/src/linux/scripts/Makefile.build:44: /home/ydroneaud/src/linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/Makefile: No such file or directory
make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/home/ydroneaud/src/linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: *** [drivers/infiniband/hw/] Error 2
make: *** [sub-make] Error 2
This patch creates a Makefile in hw/ and ulp/ and moves each
corresponding parts of drivers/infiniband/Makefile in the new
Makefiles.
It should not break build except if some hw/ drivers or ulp/ were
allowed previously to be built while CONFIG_INFINIBAND is set to 'n',
but according to drivers/infiniband/Kconfig, it's not possible. So it
should be safe to apply.
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
