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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public•gmane.org>
To: "Vishwanathapura,
	Niranjana"
	<niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public•gmane.org>,
	"ira.weiny" <ira.weiny-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>,
	Jeff Kirsher
	<jeffrey.t.kirsher-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public•gmane.org>,
	linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
	dennis.dalessandro-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public•gmane.org
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 00/10] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC)
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 10:14:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170110081402.GH7218@mtr-leonro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170110033954.GA53664-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>

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On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 07:39:54PM -0800, Vishwanathapura, Niranjana wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 09:51:04AM +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 11:28:06AM -0500, Doug Ledford wrote:
> > > On 12/15/2016 9:52 AM, ira.weiny wrote:
> > >
> > > 2) With more than 60% of the code being MAD related, and another
> > > significant chunk being hfi related, and only a minor bit (20% maybe?)
> > > being net related,
> >
> > Hi Doug and Ira,
> >
> > I may admit that I didn't read the code very deep, but from brief
> > overview, I didn't find support for the claim the "60% code is MAD related".
> > It looks like the opposite thing will be more accurate.
> >
> > Can you help me to understand this claim? How did you come to this
> > conclusion?
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Hi Leon,
>
> Here is the breakdown of patches based on functionality.

Hi Niranjana,
Thank you for breakdown, it helped a lot.

> In this series, patches #3..#8 compose hfi_vnic driver. In that, patches #4,
> #7 and #8 are MAD focused (interfacing with MAD agent and handling MAD
> packets).

Patch #3 is net device with all goodies from net stack.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9475639/
Patch #4 has one IB MAD related struct, all other things are specific to
OFA and HFI declarations.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9475653/
Patch #7 continues to implement agnostic to IB MAD net device.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9475641/
Patch #8 is without doubts, MAD related.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9475651/

Let's put aside patch #8, in such case, the proposed code won't need IB/core at
all and will look exactly like many other net drivers which encapsulate/decapsulate
packets.


> Patch #6 and half of #3 (_encap.c/h) are OPA encapsulation related. Patch #5
> is netdev statistic related (which includes statistics MAD definitions).
> So, only part of patch #3 (_netdev.c and _ethtool.c) deals with interfacing
> with netstack.
> Those percentage numbers are based on actual lines of code in these patches
> (files).
>
> We are also looking into Jason’s suggestion to make hfi_vnic interface to
> the bottom driver a generic interface. This will include moving some of the
> netstack interfacing to the bottom hfi1 driver.

Great, do you have rough estimation when will it be posted on the ML?

Thanks

>
> Niranjana
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-15  7:59 [RFC v2 00/10] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59 ` [RFC v2 01/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) documentation Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59 ` [RFC v2 05/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC statistics support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59 ` [RFC v2 08/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) function Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59 ` [RFC v2 09/10] IB/hfi1: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59 ` [RFC v2 10/10] IB/hfi1: VNIC SDMA support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found] ` <1481788782-89964-1-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15  7:59   ` [RFC v2 02/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) interface Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]     ` <1481788782-89964-3-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15  8:53       ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]         ` <20161215085349.GA90068-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15  8:56           ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-12-15 17:36         ` Stephen Hemminger
2016-12-15  7:59   ` [RFC v2 03/10] IB/hfi-vnic: Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) netdev Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]     ` <1481788782-89964-4-git-send-email-niranjana.vishwanathapura-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15 17:01       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-12-15 17:21         ` Hefty, Sean
2016-12-15 17:24           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-12-15 17:26             ` Christoph Hellwig
     [not found]         ` <20161215170109.GC3264-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16  2:59           ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-16  4:24             ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]               ` <20161216042420.GB3797-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-19  6:43                 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59   ` [RFC v2 04/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management (EM) structure definitions Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59   ` [RFC v2 06/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC MAC table support Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  7:59   ` [RFC v2 07/10] IB/hfi-vnic: VNIC Ethernet Management Agent (VEMA) interface Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-15  9:12   ` [RFC v2 00/10] HFI Virtual Network Interface Controller (VNIC) Leon Romanovsky
     [not found]     ` <20161215091226.GC811-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15 14:52       ` ira.weiny
     [not found]         ` <20161215145212.GA29116-W4f6Xiosr+yv7QzWx2u06xL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15 16:28           ` Doug Ledford
     [not found]             ` <380b05bf-a18e-1f20-7e8e-10b61f77dec7-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15 17:07               ` Jason Gunthorpe
2016-12-15 18:19                 ` Doug Ledford
     [not found]                   ` <4e22bf29-2260-0768-ab17-9a8df6306f37-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-15 18:48                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                       ` <20161215184837.GA16552-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16  1:24                         ` ira.weiny
     [not found]                           ` <20161216012404.GD3785-W4f6Xiosr+yv7QzWx2u06xL4W9x8LtSr@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16  2:30                             ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2016-12-16  4:17                             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2017-01-17 19:27                               ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                                 ` <20170117192720.GA2833-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-18  5:43                                   ` Leon Romanovsky
2017-01-18 16:46                                     ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]                 ` <20161215170713.GD3264-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16  2:47                   ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-01-09  7:51             ` Leon Romanovsky
     [not found]               ` <20170109075104.GV15685-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10  3:39                 ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
     [not found]                   ` <20170110033954.GA53664-wPcXA7LoDC+1XWohqUldA0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-10  8:14                     ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
     [not found]                       ` <20170110081402.GH7218-U/DQcQFIOTAAJjI8aNfphQ@public.gmane.org>
2017-01-11  9:05                         ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana
2017-01-11  9:16                           ` Leon Romanovsky
2016-12-15 16:56 ` Jason Gunthorpe
     [not found]   ` <20161215165611.GB3264-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2016-12-16  4:14     ` Vishwanathapura, Niranjana

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