[ofa-general] [PATCH 0/4] Adding new verbs: create_qp_flags

[Ron Livne]

Hi Roland,
any comments on these patches?

Thanks,
Ron


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Ron Livne <ronli at voltaire.com> wrote:
> This series of patches will add a new user space verb:
> ibv_create_qp_flags
>
> This new verb works similarly like ibv_create_qp,
> excpet for the additional parameter uint32_t create_flags
> that it takes in order to create the QP with the specified
> creation flags.
>
> I've already sent a similar series of patches in July,
> but it wasn't merged.
>
> The older patches were based on Jack Morgensteins XRC patches.
>
> These patches are not based on them.
>
> The uverbs patch was written based on the for-next branch.
>
> These patches don't break the ABI and are compatible with
> older kernel/libibverbs versions.
>
> The reason I added another verb in the kernel, is because
> I don't think 8 bits (the reserved bits in struct ib_uverbs_create_qp)
> will be enough in the future.
>
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