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Date:      Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:15:01 +0100
From:      Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org,  svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r278886 - in head/sys: conf contrib/rdma/krping dev/cxgb/ulp/iw_cxgb dev/cxgbe/iw_cxgbe modules/ibcore modules/mlx4ib ofed/drivers/infiniband/core ofed/drivers/infiniband/debug ofed/dri...
Message-ID:  <54E3A145.7020502@selasky.org>
In-Reply-To: <20150217173423.GA8762@ox>
References:  <201502170840.t1H8eSwP076384@svn.freebsd.org> <20150217173423.GA8762@ox>

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Hi,

On 02/17/15 18:34, Navdeep Parhar wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:40:28AM +0000, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
>> Author: hselasky
>> Date: Tue Feb 17 08:40:27 2015
>> New Revision: 278886
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/278886
>>
>> Log:
>>    Update the infiniband stack to Mellanox's OFED version 2.1.
>
> What version of the Linux kernel does this match?

It is very close to the latest 3.xxx Linux kernel.
>
>>
>>    Highlights:
>>     - Multiple verbs API updates
>>     - Support for RoCE, RDMA over ethernet
>>
>>    All hardware drivers depending on the common infiniband stack has been
>>    updated aswell.
>>
>>    Discussed with:	np @
>>    Sponsored by:	Mellanox Technologies
>>    MFC after:	1 month
>
> My reading of the project's MFC policy is that changes to the verbs
> cannot be MFC'd as that's a KPI/API change.

I agree, and if this will break binary compatibility and that is a 
requirement, I will not MFC.

>
> I still plan to test these changes with some iWARP gear later this week.
> I thought you were going to wait till then, but, oh well.

Thank you!

--HPS




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