[PATCH v2] RDMA: Split kernel-only global device caps from uverbs device caps
Max Gurtovoy
mgurtovoy at nvidia.com
Thu Apr 7 00:09:04 PDT 2022
On 4/7/2022 12:54 AM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 07, 2022 at 12:01:44AM +0300, Max Gurtovoy wrote:
>
>>> @@ -267,59 +258,53 @@ enum ib_device_cap_flags {
>>> * stag.
>>> */
>>> IB_DEVICE_MEM_MGT_EXTENSIONS = IB_UVERBS_DEVICE_MEM_MGT_EXTENSIONS,
>> MEM_MGT_EXTENSIONS is used also in the kernel ULPs (storage)
> It is not about where it is used, it is about if it is part of the
> uapi or not. Cleanly separating uapi from not uapi
from the commit message:
"
This cleanly splits out the uverbs flags from the kernel flags to avoid
confusion in the flags bitmap.
"
so it was not clear, at least to me, that some user flags are part of
both the uapi and the kapi.
maybe worth mentioning that or split the uapi and kapi altogether.
Anyway looks good for iser/srp/nvmf,
Reviewed-by: Max Gurtovoy <mgurtovoy at nvidia.com>
>
> Jason
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