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<title>IB: Put rlimit accounting struct in struct ib_umem</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T01:00:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roland Dreier</name>
<email>rolandd@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-04-19T03:20:28+00:00</published>
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When memory pinned with ib_umem_get() is released, ib_umem_release()
needs to subtract the amount of memory being unpinned from
mm-&gt;locked_vm.  However, ib_umem_release() may be called with
mm-&gt;mmap_sem already held for writing if the memory is being released
as part of an munmap() call, so it is sometimes necessary to defer
this accounting into a workqueue.

However, the work struct used to defer this accounting is dynamically
allocated before it is queued, so there is the possibility of failing
that allocation.  If the allocation fails, then ib_umem_release has no
choice except to bail out and leave the process with a permanently
elevated locked_vm.

Fix this by allocating the structure to defer accounting as part of
the original struct ib_umem, so there's no possibility of failing a
later allocation if creating the struct ib_umem and pinning memory
succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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When memory pinned with ib_umem_get() is released, ib_umem_release()
needs to subtract the amount of memory being unpinned from
mm-&gt;locked_vm.  However, ib_umem_release() may be called with
mm-&gt;mmap_sem already held for writing if the memory is being released
as part of an munmap() call, so it is sometimes necessary to defer
this accounting into a workqueue.

However, the work struct used to defer this accounting is dynamically
allocated before it is queued, so there is the possibility of failing
that allocation.  If the allocation fails, then ib_umem_release has no
choice except to bail out and leave the process with a permanently
elevated locked_vm.

Fix this by allocating the structure to defer accounting as part of
the original struct ib_umem, so there's no possibility of failing a
later allocation if creating the struct ib_umem and pinning memory
succeeds.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IB/uverbs: Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() to modules</title>
<updated>2007-05-09T01:00:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roland Dreier</name>
<email>rolandd@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-05T00:15:11+00:00</published>
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Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() and put low-level drivers in
control of when to call ib_umem_get() to pin and DMA map userspace,
rather than always calling it in ib_uverbs_reg_mr() before calling the
low-level driver's reg_user_mr method.

Also move these functions to be in the ib_core module instead of
ib_uverbs, so that driver modules using them do not depend on
ib_uverbs.

This has a number of advantages:
 - It is better design from the standpoint of making generic code a
   library that can be used or overridden by device-specific code as
   the details of specific devices dictate.
 - Drivers that do not need to pin userspace memory regions do not
   need to take the performance hit of calling ib_mem_get().  For
   example, although I have not tried to implement it in this patch,
   the ipath driver should be able to avoid pinning memory and just
   use copy_{to,from}_user() to access userspace memory regions.
 - Buffers that need special mapping treatment can be identified by
   the low-level driver.  For example, it may be possible to solve
   some Altix-specific memory ordering issues with mthca CQs in
   userspace by mapping CQ buffers with extra flags.
 - Drivers that need to pin and DMA map userspace memory for things
   other than memory regions can use ib_umem_get() directly, instead
   of hacks using extra parameters to their reg_phys_mr method.  For
   example, the mlx4 driver that is pending being merged needs to pin
   and DMA map QP and CQ buffers, but it does not need to create a
   memory key for these buffers.  So the cleanest solution is for mlx4
   to call ib_umem_get() in the create_qp and create_cq methods.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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Export ib_umem_get()/ib_umem_release() and put low-level drivers in
control of when to call ib_umem_get() to pin and DMA map userspace,
rather than always calling it in ib_uverbs_reg_mr() before calling the
low-level driver's reg_user_mr method.

Also move these functions to be in the ib_core module instead of
ib_uverbs, so that driver modules using them do not depend on
ib_uverbs.

This has a number of advantages:
 - It is better design from the standpoint of making generic code a
   library that can be used or overridden by device-specific code as
   the details of specific devices dictate.
 - Drivers that do not need to pin userspace memory regions do not
   need to take the performance hit of calling ib_mem_get().  For
   example, although I have not tried to implement it in this patch,
   the ipath driver should be able to avoid pinning memory and just
   use copy_{to,from}_user() to access userspace memory regions.
 - Buffers that need special mapping treatment can be identified by
   the low-level driver.  For example, it may be possible to solve
   some Altix-specific memory ordering issues with mthca CQs in
   userspace by mapping CQ buffers with extra flags.
 - Drivers that need to pin and DMA map userspace memory for things
   other than memory regions can use ib_umem_get() directly, instead
   of hacks using extra parameters to their reg_phys_mr method.  For
   example, the mlx4 driver that is pending being merged needs to pin
   and DMA map QP and CQ buffers, but it does not need to create a
   memory key for these buffers.  So the cleanest solution is for mlx4
   to call ib_umem_get() in the create_qp and create_cq methods.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband</title>
<updated>2007-05-07T19:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-07T19:18:21+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: Convert to NAPI
  IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()
  IB: Add CQ comp_vector support
  IB/ipath: Fix a race condition when generating ACKs
  IB/ipath: Fix two more spin lock problems
  IB/fmr_pool: Add prefix to all printks
  IB/srp: Set proc_name
  IB/srp: Add orig_dgid sysfs attribute to scsi_host
  IPoIB/cm: Don't crash if remote side uses one QP for both directions
  RDMA/cxgb3: Support for new abort logic
  RDMA/cxgb3: Initialize cpu_idx field in cpl_close_listserv_req message
  RDMA/cxgb3: Fail qp creation if the requested max_inline is too large
  RDMA/cxgb3: Fix TERM codes
  IPoIB/cm: Fix error handling in ipoib_cm_dev_open()
  IB/ipath: Don't corrupt pending mmap list when unmapped objects are freed
  IB/mthca: Work around kernel QP starvation
  IB/ipath: Don't put QP in timeout queue if waiting to send
  IB/ipath: Don't call spin_lock_irq() from interrupt context
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: Convert to NAPI
  IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()
  IB: Add CQ comp_vector support
  IB/ipath: Fix a race condition when generating ACKs
  IB/ipath: Fix two more spin lock problems
  IB/fmr_pool: Add prefix to all printks
  IB/srp: Set proc_name
  IB/srp: Add orig_dgid sysfs attribute to scsi_host
  IPoIB/cm: Don't crash if remote side uses one QP for both directions
  RDMA/cxgb3: Support for new abort logic
  RDMA/cxgb3: Initialize cpu_idx field in cpl_close_listserv_req message
  RDMA/cxgb3: Fail qp creation if the requested max_inline is too large
  RDMA/cxgb3: Fix TERM codes
  IPoIB/cm: Fix error handling in ipoib_cm_dev_open()
  IB/ipath: Don't corrupt pending mmap list when unmapped objects are freed
  IB/mthca: Work around kernel QP starvation
  IB/ipath: Don't put QP in timeout queue if waiting to send
  IB/ipath: Don't call spin_lock_irq() from interrupt context
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IB: Return "maybe missed event" hint from ib_req_notify_cq()</title>
<updated>2007-05-07T04:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roland Dreier</name>
<email>rolandd@cisco.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-07T04:02:48+00:00</published>
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The semantics defined by the InfiniBand specification say that
completion events are only generated when a completions is added to a
completion queue (CQ) after completion notification is requested.  In
other words, this means that the following race is possible:

	while (CQ is not empty)
		ib_poll_cq(CQ);
	// new completion is added after while loop is exited
	ib_req_notify_cq(CQ);
	// no event is generated for the existing completion

To close this race, the IB spec recommends doing another poll of the
CQ after requesting notification.

However, it is not always possible to arrange code this way (for
example, we have found that NAPI for IPoIB cannot poll after
requesting notification).  Also, some hardware (eg Mellanox HCAs)
actually will generate an event for completions added before the call
to ib_req_notify_cq() -- which is allowed by the spec, since there's
no way for any upper-layer consumer to know exactly when a completion
was really added -- so the extra poll of the CQ is just a waste.

Motivated by this, we add a new flag "IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS" for
ib_req_notify_cq() so that it can return a hint about whether the a
completion may have been added before the request for notification.
The return value of ib_req_notify_cq() is extended so:

	 &lt; 0	means an error occurred while requesting notification
	== 0	means notification was requested successfully, and if
		IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in, then no
		events were missed and it is safe to wait for another
		event.
	 &gt; 0	is only returned if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was
		passed in.  It means that the consumer must poll the
		CQ again to make sure it is empty to avoid the race
		described above.

We add a flag to enable this behavior rather than turning it on
unconditionally, because checking for missed events may incur
significant overhead for some low-level drivers, and consumers that
don't care about the results of this test shouldn't be forced to pay
for the test.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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The semantics defined by the InfiniBand specification say that
completion events are only generated when a completions is added to a
completion queue (CQ) after completion notification is requested.  In
other words, this means that the following race is possible:

	while (CQ is not empty)
		ib_poll_cq(CQ);
	// new completion is added after while loop is exited
	ib_req_notify_cq(CQ);
	// no event is generated for the existing completion

To close this race, the IB spec recommends doing another poll of the
CQ after requesting notification.

However, it is not always possible to arrange code this way (for
example, we have found that NAPI for IPoIB cannot poll after
requesting notification).  Also, some hardware (eg Mellanox HCAs)
actually will generate an event for completions added before the call
to ib_req_notify_cq() -- which is allowed by the spec, since there's
no way for any upper-layer consumer to know exactly when a completion
was really added -- so the extra poll of the CQ is just a waste.

Motivated by this, we add a new flag "IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS" for
ib_req_notify_cq() so that it can return a hint about whether the a
completion may have been added before the request for notification.
The return value of ib_req_notify_cq() is extended so:

	 &lt; 0	means an error occurred while requesting notification
	== 0	means notification was requested successfully, and if
		IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was passed in, then no
		events were missed and it is safe to wait for another
		event.
	 &gt; 0	is only returned if IB_CQ_REPORT_MISSED_EVENTS was
		passed in.  It means that the consumer must poll the
		CQ again to make sure it is empty to avoid the race
		described above.

We add a flag to enable this behavior rather than turning it on
unconditionally, because checking for missed events may incur
significant overhead for some low-level drivers, and consumers that
don't care about the results of this test shouldn't be forced to pay
for the test.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>IB: Add CQ comp_vector support</title>
<updated>2007-05-07T04:18:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@dev.mellanox.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2007-05-03T10:48:47+00:00</published>
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Add a num_comp_vectors member to struct ib_device and extend
ib_create_cq() to pass in a comp_vector parameter -- this parallels
the userspace libibverbs API.  Update all hardware drivers to set
num_comp_vectors to 1 and have all ULPs pass 0 for the comp_vector
value.  Pass the value of num_comp_vectors to userspace rather than
hard-coding a value of 1.

We want multiple CQ event vector support (via MSI-X or similar for
adapters that can generate multiple interrupts), but it's not clear
how many vectors we want, or how we want to deal with policy issues
such as how to decide which vector to use or how to set up interrupt
affinity.  This patch is useful for experimenting, since no core
changes will be necessary when updating a driver to support multiple
vectors, and we know that we want to make at least these changes
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@dev.mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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Add a num_comp_vectors member to struct ib_device and extend
ib_create_cq() to pass in a comp_vector parameter -- this parallels
the userspace libibverbs API.  Update all hardware drivers to set
num_comp_vectors to 1 and have all ULPs pass 0 for the comp_vector
value.  Pass the value of num_comp_vectors to userspace rather than
hard-coding a value of 1.

We want multiple CQ event vector support (via MSI-X or similar for
adapters that can generate multiple interrupts), but it's not clear
how many vectors we want, or how we want to deal with policy issues
such as how to decide which vector to use or how to set up interrupt
affinity.  This patch is useful for experimenting, since no core
changes will be necessary when updating a driver to support multiple
vectors, and we know that we want to make at least these changes
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@dev.mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>PCI: Cleanup the includes of &lt;linux/pci.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2007-05-03T02:02:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2007-03-06T10:45:12+00:00</published>
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I noticed that many source files include &lt;linux/pci.h&gt; while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.

In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including &lt;linux/pci.h&gt; but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.

My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:

arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c

I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.

Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
  [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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I noticed that many source files include &lt;linux/pci.h&gt; while they do
not appear to need it. Here is an attempt to clean it all up.

In order to find all possibly affected files, I searched for all
files including &lt;linux/pci.h&gt; but without any other occurence of "pci"
or "PCI". I removed the include statement from all of these, then I
compiled an allmodconfig kernel on both i386 and x86_64 and fixed the
false positives manually.

My tests covered 66% of the affected files, so there could be false
positives remaining. Untested files are:

arch/alpha/kernel/err_common.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev6.c
arch/alpha/kernel/err_ev7.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/huberror.c
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xpnet.c
arch/m68knommu/kernel/dma.c
arch/mips/lib/iomap.c
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ras.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c
arch/ppc/8xx_io/enet.c
arch/ppc/syslib/ppc4xx_sgdma.c
arch/sh64/mach-cayman/iomap.c
arch/xtensa/kernel/xtensa_ksyms.c
arch/xtensa/platform-iss/setup.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mpc.c
drivers/media/video/saa711x.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_cpustate.c
drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_main.c
drivers/net/fec_8xx/fec_mii.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fcc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-fec.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mac-scc.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-bitbang.c
drivers/net/fs_enet/mii-fec.c
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_core.c
drivers/net/lasi_82596.c
drivers/parisc/hppb.c
drivers/sbus/sbus.c
drivers/video/g364fb.c
drivers/video/platinumfb.c
drivers/video/stifb.c
drivers/video/valkyriefb.c
include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/dma.h
sound/oss/au1550_ac97.c

I would welcome test reports for these files. I am fine with removing
the untested files from the patch if the general opinion is that these
changes aren't safe. The tested part would still be nice to have.

Note that this patch depends on another header fixup patch I submitted
to LKML yesterday:
  [PATCH] scatterlist.h needs types.h
  http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/01/141

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Cc: Badari Pulavarty &lt;pbadari@us.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>RDMA/cma: Add multicast communication support</title>
<updated>2007-02-16T22:29:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Hefty</name>
<email>sean.hefty@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-16T01:00:18+00:00</published>
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Extend rdma_cm to support multicast communication.  Multicast support
is added to the existing RDMA_PS_UDP port space, as well as a new
RDMA_PS_IPOIB port space.  The latter port space allows joining the
multicast groups used by IPoIB, which enables offloading IPoIB traffic
to a separate QP.  The port space determines the signature used in the
MGID when joining the group.  The newly added RDMA_PS_IPOIB also
allows for unicast operations, similar to RDMA_PS_UDP.

Supporting the RDMA_PS_IPOIB requires changing how UD QPs are initialized,
since we can no longer assume that the qkey is constant.  This requires
saving the Q_Key to use when attaching to a device, so that it is
available when creating the QP.  The Q_Key information is exported to
the user through the existing rdma_init_qp_attr() interface.

Multicast support is also exported to userspace through the rdma_ucm.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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Extend rdma_cm to support multicast communication.  Multicast support
is added to the existing RDMA_PS_UDP port space, as well as a new
RDMA_PS_IPOIB port space.  The latter port space allows joining the
multicast groups used by IPoIB, which enables offloading IPoIB traffic
to a separate QP.  The port space determines the signature used in the
MGID when joining the group.  The newly added RDMA_PS_IPOIB also
allows for unicast operations, similar to RDMA_PS_UDP.

Supporting the RDMA_PS_IPOIB requires changing how UD QPs are initialized,
since we can no longer assume that the qkey is constant.  This requires
saving the Q_Key to use when attaching to a device, so that it is
available when creating the QP.  The Q_Key information is exported to
the user through the existing rdma_init_qp_attr() interface.

Multicast support is also exported to userspace through the rdma_ucm.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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<title>IB/sa: Track multicast join/leave requests</title>
<updated>2007-02-16T22:20:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Hefty</name>
<email>sean.hefty@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-02-16T01:00:17+00:00</published>
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The IB SA tracks multicast join/leave requests on a per port basis and
does not do any reference counting: if two users of the same port join
the same group, and one leaves that group, then the SA will remove the
port from the group even though there is one user who wants to stay a
member left.  Therefore, in order to support multiple users of the
same multicast group from the same port, we need to perform reference
counting locally.

To do this, add an multicast submodule to ib_sa to perform reference
counting of multicast join/leave operations.  Modify ib_ipoib (the
only in-kernel user of multicast) to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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The IB SA tracks multicast join/leave requests on a per port basis and
does not do any reference counting: if two users of the same port join
the same group, and one leaves that group, then the SA will remove the
port from the group even though there is one user who wants to stay a
member left.  Therefore, in order to support multiple users of the
same multicast group from the same port, we need to perform reference
counting locally.

To do this, add an multicast submodule to ib_sa to perform reference
counting of multicast join/leave operations.  Modify ib_ipoib (the
only in-kernel user of multicast) to use the new interface.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>IB: Make sure struct ib_user_mad.data is aligned</title>
<updated>2007-02-04T22:11:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason Gunthorpe</name>
<email>jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com</email>
</author>
<published>2007-01-19T18:58:49+00:00</published>
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Make the untyped data region in ib_user_mad have type u64 so that it
gets aligned properly.  This avoids alignment faults in ib_umad when
casting the data field to an rmpp_mad and accessing the 64-bit tid
field on architectures like ia64.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;

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Make the untyped data region in ib_user_mad have type u64 so that it
gets aligned properly.  This avoids alignment faults in ib_umad when
casting the data field to an rmpp_mad and accessing the 64-bit tid
field on architectures like ia64.

Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>IB: Return qp pointer as part of ib_wc</title>
<updated>2007-02-04T22:11:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@mellanox.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2006-12-31T19:09:42+00:00</published>
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struct ib_wc currently only includes the local QP number: this matches
the IB spec, but seems mostly useless. The following patch replaces
this with the pointer to qp itself, and updates all low level drivers
and all users.

This has the following advantages:
- Ability to get a per-qp context through wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_context
- Existing drivers already have the qp pointer ready in poll cq, so
  this change actually saves a tiny bit (extra memory read) on data path
  (for ehca it would actually be expensive to find the QP pointer when
  polling a CQ, but ehca does not support SRQ so we can leave wc-&gt;qp as
  NULL for ehca)
- Users that need the QP number can still get it through wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_num

Use case:

In IPoIB connected mode code, I have a common CQ shared by multiple
QPs.  To track connection usage, I need a way to get at some per-QP
context upon the completion, and I would like to avoid allocating
context object per work request just to stick a QP pointer into it.
With this code, I can just use wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_context.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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struct ib_wc currently only includes the local QP number: this matches
the IB spec, but seems mostly useless. The following patch replaces
this with the pointer to qp itself, and updates all low level drivers
and all users.

This has the following advantages:
- Ability to get a per-qp context through wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_context
- Existing drivers already have the qp pointer ready in poll cq, so
  this change actually saves a tiny bit (extra memory read) on data path
  (for ehca it would actually be expensive to find the QP pointer when
  polling a CQ, but ehca does not support SRQ so we can leave wc-&gt;qp as
  NULL for ehca)
- Users that need the QP number can still get it through wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_num

Use case:

In IPoIB connected mode code, I have a common CQ shared by multiple
QPs.  To track connection usage, I need a way to get at some per-QP
context upon the completion, and I would like to avoid allocating
context object per work request just to stick a QP pointer into it.
With this code, I can just use wc-&gt;qp-&gt;qp_context.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@mellanox.co.il&gt;
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier &lt;rolandd@cisco.com&gt;
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