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Roland Dreier
0e6e741621 IB/mlx4: Handle new FW requirement for send request prefetching
New ConnectX firmware introduces FW command interface revision 2,
which requires that for each QP, a chunk of send queue entries (the
"headroom") is kept marked as invalid, so that the HCA doesn't get
confused if it prefetches entries that haven't been posted yet.  Add
code to the driver to do this, and also update the user ABI so that
userspace can request that the prefetcher be turned off for userspace
QPs (we just leave the prefetcher on for all kernel QPs).

Unfortunately, marking send queue entries this way is confuses older
firmware, so we change the driver to allow only FW command interface
revisions 2.  This means that users will have to update their firmware
to work with the new driver, but the firmware is changing quickly and
the old firmware has lots of other bugs anyway, so this shouldn't be too
big a deal.

Based on a patch from Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-06-18 08:13:48 -07:00
Eli Cohen
2446304dd6 IB/mlx4: Pass send queue sizes from userspace to kernel
Pass the number of WQEs for the send queue and their size from userspace
to the kernel to avoid having to keep the QP size calculations in sync 
between the kernel driver and libmlx4.  This fixes a bug seen with the 
current mlx4_ib driver and current libmlx4 caused by a difference in the 
calculated sizes for SQ WQEs.  Also, this gives more flexibility for 
userspace to experiment with using multiple WQE BBs for a single SQ WQE.

Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-05-20 10:18:04 -07:00
Roland Dreier
225c7b1fee IB/mlx4: Add a driver Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand adapters
Add an InfiniBand driver for Mellanox ConnectX adapters.  Because
these adapters can also be used as ethernet NICs and Fibre Channel 
HBAs, the driver is split into two modules: 
 
  mlx4_core: Handles low-level things like device initialization and 
    processing firmware commands.  Also controls resource allocation 
    so that the InfiniBand, ethernet and FC functions can share a 
    device without stepping on each other. 
 
  mlx4_ib: Handles InfiniBand-specific things; plugs into the 
    InfiniBand midlayer. 

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-05-08 18:00:38 -07:00