linux/drivers/infiniband/Kconfig
Moni Shoua 8700e3e7c4 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>
2016-08-04 11:13:12 -04:00

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menuconfig INFINIBAND
tristate "InfiniBand support"
depends on PCI || BROKEN
depends on HAS_IOMEM
depends on NET
depends on INET
depends on m || IPV6 != m
select IRQ_POLL
---help---
Core support for InfiniBand (IB). Make sure to also select
any protocols you wish to use as well as drivers for your
InfiniBand hardware.
if INFINIBAND
config INFINIBAND_USER_MAD
tristate "InfiniBand userspace MAD support"
depends on INFINIBAND
---help---
Userspace InfiniBand Management Datagram (MAD) support. This
is the kernel side of the userspace MAD support, which allows
userspace processes to send and receive MADs. You will also
need libibumad from <http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/management/>.
config INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS
tristate "InfiniBand userspace access (verbs and CM)"
select ANON_INODES
---help---
Userspace InfiniBand access support. This enables the
kernel side of userspace verbs and the userspace
communication manager (CM). This allows userspace processes
to set up connections and directly access InfiniBand
hardware for fast-path operations. You will also need
libibverbs, libibcm and a hardware driver library from
<http://www.openfabrics.org/git/>.
config INFINIBAND_USER_MEM
bool
depends on INFINIBAND_USER_ACCESS != n
default y
config INFINIBAND_ON_DEMAND_PAGING
bool "InfiniBand on-demand paging support"
depends on INFINIBAND_USER_MEM
select MMU_NOTIFIER
default y
---help---
On demand paging support for the InfiniBand subsystem.
Together with driver support this allows registration of
memory regions without pinning their pages, fetching the
pages on demand instead.
config INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS
bool
depends on INFINIBAND
default y
config INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS_CONFIGFS
bool
depends on INFINIBAND_ADDR_TRANS && CONFIGFS_FS && !(INFINIBAND=y && CONFIGFS_FS=m)
default y
---help---
ConfigFS support for RDMA communication manager (CM).
This allows the user to config the default GID type that the CM
uses for each device, when initiaing new connections.
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb4/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/i40iw/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/ocrdma/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/usnic/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/ulp/srp/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/ulp/iser/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/ulp/isert/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/sw/rdmavt/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/Kconfig"
source "drivers/infiniband/hw/hfi1/Kconfig"
endif # INFINIBAND