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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>
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config RDMA_RXE
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tristate "Software RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) driver"
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depends on INET && PCI && INFINIBAND
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depends on NET_UDP_TUNNEL
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---help---
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This driver implements the InfiniBand RDMA transport over
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the Linux network stack. It enables a system with a
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standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a RoCE
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adapter or with another system running the RXE driver.
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Documentation on InfiniBand and RoCE can be downloaded at
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www.infinibandta.org and www.openfabrics.org. (See also
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siw which is a similar software driver for iWARP.)
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The driver is split into two layers, one interfaces with the
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Linux RDMA stack and implements a kernel or user space
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verbs API. The user space verbs API requires a support
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library named librxe which is loaded by the generic user
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space verbs API, libibverbs. The other layer interfaces
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with the Linux network stack at layer 3.
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To configure and work with soft-RoCE driver please use the
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following wiki page under "configure Soft-RoCE (RXE)" section:
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https://github.com/SoftRoCE/rxe-dev/wiki/rxe-dev:-Home
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