Soft RoCE driver

Soft RoCE (RXE) - The software RoCE driver

ib_rxe implements the RDMA transport and registers to the RDMA core
device as a kernel verbs provider. It also implements the packet IO
layer. On the other hand ib_rxe registers to the Linux netdev stack
as a udp encapsulating protocol, in that case RDMA, for sending and
receiving packets over any Ethernet device.  This yields a RDMA
transport over the UDP/Ethernet network layer forming a RoCEv2
compatible device.

The configuration procedure of the Soft RoCE drivers requires
binding to any existing Ethernet network device. This is done with
/sys interface.

A userspace Soft RoCE library (librxe) provides user applications
the ability to run with Soft RoCE devices.  The use of rxe verbs ins
user space requires the inclusion of librxe as a device specifics
plug-in to libibverbs. librxe is packaged separately.

Architecture:

     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
     |                          Application                      |
     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
                            +-----------------------------------+
                            |             libibverbs            |
User                        +-----------------------------------+
                            +----------------+ +----------------+
                            | librxe         | | HW RoCE lib    |
                            +----------------+ +----------------+
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
     +--------------+                           +------------+
     | Sockets      |                           | RDMA ULP   |
     +--------------+                           +------------+
     +--------------+                  +---------------------+
     | TCP/IP       |                  | ib_core             |
     +--------------+                  +---------------------+
                             +------------+ +----------------+
Kernel                       | ib_rxe     | | HW RoCE driver |
                             +------------+ +----------------+
     +------------------------------------+
     | NIC driver                         |
     +------------------------------------+

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
     |                          Application                      |
     +-----------------------------------------------------------+
                            +-----------------------------------+
                            |             libibverbs            |
User                        +-----------------------------------+
                            +----------------+ +----------------+
                            | librxe         | | HW RoCE lib    |
                            +----------------+ +----------------+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
     +--------------+                           +------------+
     | Sockets      |                           | RDMA ULP   |
     +--------------+                           +------------+
     +--------------+                  +---------------------+
     | TCP/IP       |                  | ib_core             |
     +--------------+                  +---------------------+
                             +------------+ +----------------+
Kernel                       | ib_rxe     | | HW RoCE driver |
                             +------------+ +----------------+
     +------------------------------------+
     | NIC driver                         |
     +------------------------------------+
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Soft RoCE resources:

[1[ https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev librxe - source code in
Github
[2] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home - Soft RoCE
Wiki page
[3] https://github.com/SoftRoCE/librxe-dev - Soft RoCE userspace library

Signed-off-by: Kamal Heib <kamalh@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/Kconfig b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1e4e628fe7b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+config RDMA_RXE
+	tristate "Software RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) driver"
+	depends on INET && PCI && INFINIBAND
+	depends on NET_UDP_TUNNEL
+	---help---
+	This driver implements the InfiniBand RDMA transport over
+	the Linux network stack. It enables a system with a
+	standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a RoCE
+	adapter or with another system running the RXE driver.
+	Documentation on InfiniBand and RoCE can be downloaded at
+	www.infinibandta.org and www.openfabrics.org. (See also
+	siw which is a similar software driver for iWARP.)
+
+	The driver is split into two layers, one interfaces with the
+	Linux RDMA stack and implements a kernel or user space
+	verbs API. The user space verbs API requires a support
+	library named librxe which is loaded by the generic user
+	space verbs API, libibverbs. The other layer interfaces
+	with the Linux network stack at layer 3.
+
+	To configure and work with soft-RoCE driver please use the
+	following wiki page under "configure Soft-RoCE (RXE)" section:
+
+	https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home