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authorMatan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com>2013-11-07 14:25:12 +0100
committerRoland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>2014-01-14 23:06:50 +0100
commit90f1d1b41b70474bf73d07d4300196901cd81718 (patch)
tree5996e9d975e51f36d3864de8af7d87c163bd0590
parentLinux 3.13-rc8 (diff)
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IB/core: Add flow steering support for IPoIB UD traffic
When creating an IPoIB UD QP, provide a hint to the low level driver that the QP should support flow-steering. This means that privileged user space applications can steer TCP/IP IPoIB traffic from the network stack, in a similar manner done with Ethernet RAW_PACKET QPs. The hint is provided through new QP creation flag called NETIF_QP. Signed-off-by: Matan Barak <matanb@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r--drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c3
-rw-r--r--include/rdma/ib_verbs.h1
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
index 049a997caff3..c56d5d44c53b 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c
@@ -192,6 +192,9 @@ int ipoib_transport_dev_init(struct net_device *dev, struct ib_device *ca)
if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK)
init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK;
+ if (priv->hca_caps & IB_DEVICE_MANAGED_FLOW_STEERING)
+ init_attr.create_flags |= IB_QP_CREATE_NETIF_QP;
+
if (dev->features & NETIF_F_SG)
init_attr.cap.max_send_sge = MAX_SKB_FRAGS + 1;
diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
index 61e1935c91b1..d4d16394455f 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_verbs.h
@@ -633,6 +633,7 @@ enum ib_qp_type {
enum ib_qp_create_flags {
IB_QP_CREATE_IPOIB_UD_LSO = 1 << 0,
IB_QP_CREATE_BLOCK_MULTICAST_LOOPBACK = 1 << 1,
+ IB_QP_CREATE_NETIF_QP = 1 << 5,
/* reserve bits 26-31 for low level drivers' internal use */
IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_START = 1 << 26,
IB_QP_CREATE_RESERVED_END = 1 << 31,