Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] SIF related verbs patches

From: Knut Omang
Date: Fri Sep 16 2016 - 16:42:27 EST


On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 13:30 -0700, Santosh Shilimkar wrote:
> Hi Knut,
>
> On 9/16/2016 11:31 AM, Knut Omang wrote:
> > This patch set contains the changes and bug fixes necessary
> > to support Oracle's new Infiniband HCA (SIF) from the kernel side.
> >
> > The exception is patch 3 which is a useful consolidation and simplification
> > made possible by patch 2 and the replacement of the dma_attr type with
> > a plain bitmask.
> >
> > The changes to other rdma drivers are just trivial consequences of
> > the extended umem_get and create_ah calls and should hopefully be
> > uncontroversial.
> >
> > Patches 4-7 are related to corresponding libibverbs patches.
> > These make minor changes (fixing end alignment) to some uverbs
> > data structures, but these are carefully made to be backward
> > binary compatible between user and kernel for existing provider
> > libraries.
> >
> You have missed SOBs on few patches accidentally. You might want to
> fix that for next post :-)
>
> regards,
> Santosh

An unfortunate side effect of getting going with the otherwise excellent
git series tools that the -ns option I have been using to 'git format-patch'
git lost.

I have fixed the series for the next post,

Thanks for spotting it,
Knut