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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> |