mlx5e-updates-2018-10-10
IPoIB netlink support and mlx5e pre-allocated netdevice initialization
IP link was broken due to the changes in IPoIB for the rdma_netdev
support after commit cd565b4b51e5
("IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks").
This patchset fixes IPoIB pkey creation and removal using rtnetlink by
adding support in both IPoIB ULP layer and mlx5 layer:
From Jason and Denis:
1) Introduces changes in the RDMA netdev code in order to
allow allocation of the netdev to be done by the rtnl netdev code.
2) Reworks IPoIB initialization to use the two step rdma_netdev
creation.
From Feras and Saeed, mlx5e netdev layer refactoring to allow accepting
pre-allocated netdevs:
3) Adds support to initialize/cleanup netdevs that are not created
by mlx5 driver.
4) Change mlx5e netdevice layer to accept the pre-allocated netdevice
queue number.
5) Initialize mlx5e generic structures in one place to be used for all
netdevs types NIC/representors/IPoIB (both mlx5 allocated and
pre-allocted).
net/mlx5e: Do not ignore netdevice TX/RX queues number
The current design of mlx5e driver ignores the netdevice TX/RX queues
number for netdevices that RDMA IPoIB ULP creates. Instead, the queue
number is initialized to the maximum number that mlx5 thinks best for
performance. As a result, ULP drivers that choose to create a netdevice
with queue number that is less than the maximum channels mlx5 creates,
will get a memory corruption.
This fix changes the mlx5e netdev logic to respect ULP netdevices TX/RX
queue number and use it when creating resources instead of the maximum
channel number.
Fixes: cd565b4b51e5 ("IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks")
Signed-off-by: Feras Daoud <ferasda@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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