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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700 |
commit | 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 (patch) | |
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Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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diff --git a/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..cae0c83f1ee9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/infiniband/user_mad.txt @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +USERSPACE MAD ACCESS + +Device files + + Each port of each InfiniBand device has a "umad" device and an + "issm" device attached. For example, a two-port HCA will have two + umad devices and two issm devices, while a switch will have one + device of each type (for switch port 0). + +Creating MAD agents + + A MAD agent can be created by filling in a struct ib_user_mad_reg_req + and then calling the IB_USER_MAD_REGISTER_AGENT ioctl on a file + descriptor for the appropriate device file. If the registration + request succeeds, a 32-bit id will be returned in the structure. + For example: + + struct ib_user_mad_reg_req req = { /* ... */ }; + ret = ioctl(fd, IB_USER_MAD_REGISTER_AGENT, (char *) &req); + if (!ret) + my_agent = req.id; + else + perror("agent register"); + + Agents can be unregistered with the IB_USER_MAD_UNREGISTER_AGENT + ioctl. Also, all agents registered through a file descriptor will + be unregistered when the descriptor is closed. + +Receiving MADs + + MADs are received using read(). The buffer passed to read() must be + large enough to hold at least one struct ib_user_mad. For example: + + struct ib_user_mad mad; + ret = read(fd, &mad, sizeof mad); + if (ret != sizeof mad) + perror("read"); + + In addition to the actual MAD contents, the other struct ib_user_mad + fields will be filled in with information on the received MAD. For + example, the remote LID will be in mad.lid. + + If a send times out, a receive will be generated with mad.status set + to ETIMEDOUT. Otherwise when a MAD has been successfully received, + mad.status will be 0. + + poll()/select() may be used to wait until a MAD can be read. + +Sending MADs + + MADs are sent using write(). The agent ID for sending should be + filled into the id field of the MAD, the destination LID should be + filled into the lid field, and so on. For example: + + struct ib_user_mad mad; + + /* fill in mad.data */ + + mad.id = my_agent; /* req.id from agent registration */ + mad.lid = my_dest; /* in network byte order... */ + /* etc. */ + + ret = write(fd, &mad, sizeof mad); + if (ret != sizeof mad) + perror("write"); + +Setting IsSM Capability Bit + + To set the IsSM capability bit for a port, simply open the + corresponding issm device file. If the IsSM bit is already set, + then the open call will block until the bit is cleared (or return + immediately with errno set to EAGAIN if the O_NONBLOCK flag is + passed to open()). The IsSM bit will be cleared when the issm file + is closed. No read, write or other operations can be performed on + the issm file. + +/dev files + + To create the appropriate character device files automatically with + udev, a rule like + + KERNEL="umad*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + KERNEL="issm*", NAME="infiniband/%k" + + can be used. This will create device nodes named + + /dev/infiniband/umad0 + /dev/infiniband/issm0 + + for the first port, and so on. The InfiniBand device and port + associated with these devices can be determined from the files + + /sys/class/infiniband_mad/umad0/ibdev + /sys/class/infiniband_mad/umad0/port + + and + + /sys/class/infiniband_mad/issm0/ibdev + /sys/class/infiniband_mad/issm0/port |