Moni Shoua 8700e3e7c4 Soft RoCE driver
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>
2016-08-04 11:13:12 -04:00
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