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author | Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com> | 2014-08-08 19:00:55 -0400 |
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committer | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2014-08-10 23:36:00 -0400 |
commit | 0f29b46d49b0ca50536632c6a33986c3171f5ea1 (patch) | |
tree | 8ce3551b9fd88c7706f68e0e26b915892e204154 /Documentation/infiniband | |
parent | 9ad13a423484725324fb2c5c5ab527d6bf9d84cc (diff) |
IB/mad: add new ioctl to ABI to support new registration options
Registrations options are specified through flags. Definitions of flags will
be in subsequent patches.
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/infiniband')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt index 8a366959f5cc..7aca13a54a3a 100644 --- a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt | |||
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ Creating MAD agents | |||
26 | ioctl. Also, all agents registered through a file descriptor will | 26 | ioctl. Also, all agents registered through a file descriptor will |
27 | be unregistered when the descriptor is closed. | 27 | be unregistered when the descriptor is closed. |
28 | 28 | ||
29 | 2014 -- a new registration ioctl is now provided which allows additional | ||
30 | fields to be provided during registration. | ||
31 | Users of this registration call are implicitly setting the use of | ||
32 | pkey_index (see below). | ||
33 | |||
29 | Receiving MADs | 34 | Receiving MADs |
30 | 35 | ||
31 | MADs are received using read(). The receive side now supports | 36 | MADs are received using read(). The receive side now supports |
@@ -104,10 +109,10 @@ P_Key Index Handling | |||
104 | The old ib_umad interface did not allow setting the P_Key index for | 109 | The old ib_umad interface did not allow setting the P_Key index for |
105 | MADs that are sent and did not provide a way for obtaining the P_Key | 110 | MADs that are sent and did not provide a way for obtaining the P_Key |
106 | index of received MADs. A new layout for struct ib_user_mad_hdr | 111 | index of received MADs. A new layout for struct ib_user_mad_hdr |
107 | with a pkey_index member has been defined; however, to preserve | 112 | with a pkey_index member has been defined; however, to preserve binary |
108 | binary compatibility with older applications, this new layout will | 113 | compatibility with older applications, this new layout will not be used |
109 | not be used unless the IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY ioctl is called | 114 | unless one of IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY or IB_USER_MAD_REGISTER_AGENT2 ioctl's |
110 | before a file descriptor is used for anything else. | 115 | are called before a file descriptor is used for anything else. |
111 | 116 | ||
112 | In September 2008, the IB_USER_MAD_ABI_VERSION will be incremented | 117 | In September 2008, the IB_USER_MAD_ABI_VERSION will be incremented |
113 | to 6, the new layout of struct ib_user_mad_hdr will be used by | 118 | to 6, the new layout of struct ib_user_mad_hdr will be used by |