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>
This patch introduces the basics for a new module called rdma_vt. This new
driver is a software implementation of the InfiniBand verbs and aims to
replace the multiple implementations that exist and duplicate each others'
code.
While the call to actually register the device with the IB core happens in
rdma_vt, most of the work is still done in the drivers themselves. This
will be changing in a follow on patch this is just laying the groundwork
for this infrastructure.
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Moni Shoua