From 8700e3e7c4857d28ebaa824509934556da0b3e76 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moni Shoua Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2016 16:45:23 +0300 Subject: Soft RoCE driver Soft RoCE (RXE) - The software RoCE driver ib_rxe implements the RDMA transport and registers to the RDMA core device as a kernel verbs provider. It also implements the packet IO layer. On the other hand ib_rxe registers to the Linux netdev stack as a udp encapsulating protocol, in that case RDMA, for sending and receiving packets over any Ethernet device. This yields a RDMA transport over the UDP/Ethernet network layer forming a RoCEv2 compatible device. The configuration procedure of the Soft RoCE drivers requires binding to any existing Ethernet network device. This is done with /sys interface. A userspace Soft RoCE library (librxe) provides user applications the ability to run with Soft RoCE devices. The use of rxe verbs ins user space requires the inclusion of librxe as a device specifics plug-in to libibverbs. librxe is packaged separately. Architecture: +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Application | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ | libibverbs | User +-----------------------------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ | librxe | | HW RoCE lib | +----------------+ +----------------+ +---------------------------------------------------------------+ +--------------+ +------------+ | Sockets | | RDMA ULP | +--------------+ +------------+ +--------------+ +---------------------+ | TCP/IP | | ib_core | +--------------+ +---------------------+ +------------+ +----------------+ Kernel | ib_rxe | | HW RoCE driver | +------------+ +----------------+ +------------------------------------+ | NIC driver | +------------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +-----------------------------------------------------------+ | Application | +-----------------------------------------------------------+ +-----------------------------------+ | libibverbs | User +-----------------------------------+ +----------------+ +----------------+ | librxe | | HW RoCE lib | +----------------+ +----------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +--------------+ +------------+ | Sockets | | RDMA ULP | +--------------+ +------------+ +--------------+ +---------------------+ | TCP/IP | | ib_core | +--------------+ +---------------------+ +------------+ +----------------+ Kernel | ib_rxe | | HW RoCE driver | +------------+ +----------------+ +------------------------------------+ | NIC driver | +------------------------------------+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Soft RoCE resources: [1[ https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev librxe - source code in Github [2] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home - Soft RoCE Wiki page [3] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev - Soft RoCE userspace library Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua Reviewed-by: Haggai Eran Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford --- MAINTAINERS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index e1b090f86e0d..4daa6712eac1 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -7444,6 +7444,15 @@ W: http://www.mellanox.com Q: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netdev/list/ F: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/ +SOFT-ROCE DRIVER (rxe) +M: Moni Shoua +L: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org +S: Supported +W: https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home +Q: http://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-rdma/list/ +F: drivers/infiniband/hw/rxe/ +F: include/uapi/rdma/rdma_user_rxe.h + MEMBARRIER SUPPORT M: Mathieu Desnoyers M: "Paul E. McKenney" -- cgit v1.2.3-58-ga151