IB/Verbs: Improve docs for rdma-helpers
Increase the level of documentation for the rdma_cap_* helpers introduced by Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com>. This patch is loosely based on a patch Michael wrote to enhance the documentation of these functions, but has been significantly modified in terms of verbiage. In addition, the comments were moved from a kernel Documentation/infiniband/ file to being inline in the header file itself for the functions in question. Finally, the documentation was formated in proper kdoc format. Signed-off-by: Michael Wang <yun.wang@profitbricks.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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@ -1775,14 +1775,16 @@ static inline bool rdma_ib_or_iboe(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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}
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/**
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* rdma_cap_ib_mad - Check if the port of device has the capability Infiniband
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* rdma_cap_ib_mad - Check if the port of a device supports Infiniband
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* Management Datagrams.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* Management Datagrams (MAD) are a required part of the InfiniBand
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* specification and are supported on all InfiniBand devices. A slightly
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* extended version are also supported on OPA interfaces.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support Infiniband
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* Management Datagrams.
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* Return: true if the port supports sending/receiving of MAD packets.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_ib_mad(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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}
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/**
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* rdma_cap_ib_smi - Check if the port of device has the capability Infiniband
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* Subnet Management Interface.
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* rdma_cap_ib_smi - Check if the port of a device provides an Infiniband
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* Subnet Management Agent (SMA) on the Subnet Management Interface (SMI).
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* Each InfiniBand node is required to provide a Subnet Management Agent
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* that the subnet manager can access. Prior to the fabric being fully
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* configured by the subnet manager, the SMA is accessed via a well known
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* interface called the Subnet Management Interface (SMI). This interface
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* uses directed route packets to communicate with the SM to get around the
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* chicken and egg problem of the SM needing to know what's on the fabric
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* in order to configure the fabric, and needing to configure the fabric in
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* order to send packets to the devices on the fabric. These directed
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* route packets do not need the fabric fully configured in order to reach
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* their destination. The SMI is the only method allowed to send
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* directed route packets on an InfiniBand fabric.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support Infiniband
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* Subnet Management Interface.
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* Return: true if the port provides an SMI.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_ib_smi(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_ib_cm - Check if the port of device has the capability Infiniband
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* Communication Manager.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* The InfiniBand Communication Manager is one of many pre-defined General
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* Service Agents (GSA) that are accessed via the General Service
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* Interface (GSI). It's role is to facilitate establishment of connections
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* between nodes as well as other management related tasks for established
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* connections.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support Infiniband
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* Communication Manager.
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* Return: true if the port supports an IB CM (this does not guarantee that
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* a CM is actually running however).
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_ib_cm(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_iw_cm - Check if the port of device has the capability IWARP
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* Communication Manager.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* Similar to above, but specific to iWARP connections which have a different
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* managment protocol than InfiniBand.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support IWARP
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* Communication Manager.
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* Return: true if the port supports an iWARP CM (this does not guarantee that
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* a CM is actually running however).
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_iw_cm(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_ib_sa - Check if the port of device has the capability Infiniband
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* Subnet Administration.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* An InfiniBand Subnet Administration (SA) service is a pre-defined General
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* Service Agent (GSA) provided by the Subnet Manager (SM). On InfiniBand
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* fabrics, devices should resolve routes to other hosts by contacting the
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* SA to query the proper route.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support Infiniband
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* Subnet Administration.
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* Return: true if the port should act as a client to the fabric Subnet
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* Administration interface. This does not imply that the SA service is
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* running locally.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_ib_sa(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_ib_mcast - Check if the port of device has the capability Infiniband
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* Multicast.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* InfiniBand multicast registration is more complex than normal IPv4 or
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* IPv6 multicast registration. Each Host Channel Adapter must register
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* with the Subnet Manager when it wishes to join a multicast group. It
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* should do so only once regardless of how many queue pairs it subscribes
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* to this group. And it should leave the group only after all queue pairs
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* attached to the group have been detached.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support Infiniband
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* Multicast.
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* Return: true if the port must undertake the additional adminstrative
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* overhead of registering/unregistering with the SM and tracking of the
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* total number of queue pairs attached to the multicast group.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_ib_mcast(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_af_ib - Check if the port of device has the capability
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* Native Infiniband Address.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* InfiniBand addressing uses a port's GUID + Subnet Prefix to make a default
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* GID. RoCE uses a different mechanism, but still generates a GID via
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* a prescribed mechanism and port specific data.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support
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* Native Infiniband Address.
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* Return: true if the port uses a GID address to identify devices on the
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* network.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_af_ib(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_eth_ah - Check if the port of device has the capability
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* Ethernet Address Handler.
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* Ethernet Address Handle.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* RoCE is InfiniBand over Ethernet, and it uses a well defined technique
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* to fabricate GIDs over Ethernet/IP specific addresses native to the
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* port. Normally, packet headers are generated by the sending host
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* adapter, but when sending connectionless datagrams, we must manually
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* inject the proper headers for the fabric we are communicating over.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support
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* Ethernet Address Handler.
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* Return: true if we are running as a RoCE port and must force the
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* addition of a Global Route Header built from our Ethernet Address
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* Handle into our header list for connectionless packets.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_eth_ah(struct ib_device *device, u8 port_num)
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{
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/**
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* rdma_cap_read_multi_sge - Check if the port of device has the capability
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* RDMA Read Multiple Scatter-Gather Entries.
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* @device: Device to check
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* @port_num: Port number to check
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*
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* @device: Device to be checked
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* @port_num: Port number of the device
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* iWARP has a restriction that RDMA READ requests may only have a single
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* Scatter/Gather Entry (SGE) in the work request.
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*
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* Return false when port of the device don't support
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* RDMA Read Multiple Scatter-Gather Entries.
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* NOTE: although the linux kernel currently assumes all devices are either
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* single SGE RDMA READ devices or identical SGE maximums for RDMA READs and
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* WRITEs, according to Tom Talpey, this is not accurate. There are some
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* devices out there that support more than a single SGE on RDMA READ
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* requests, but do not support the same number of SGEs as they do on
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* RDMA WRITE requests. The linux kernel would need rearchitecting to
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* support these imbalanced READ/WRITE SGEs allowed devices. So, for now,
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* suffice with either the device supports the same READ/WRITE SGEs, or
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* it only gets one READ sge.
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*
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* Return: true for any device that allows more than one SGE in RDMA READ
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* requests.
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*/
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static inline bool rdma_cap_read_multi_sge(struct ib_device *device,
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u8 port_num)
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