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Commit 5a374949 authored by Mark Zhang's avatar Mark Zhang Committed by Leon Romanovsky
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RDMA/cma: Multiple path records support with netlink channel



Support receiving inbound and outbound IB path records (along with GMP
PathRecord) from user-space service through the RDMA netlink channel.
The LIDs in these 3 PRs can be used in this way:
1. GMP PR: used as the standard local/remote LIDs;
2. DLID of outbound PR: Used as the "dlid" field for outbound traffic;
3. DLID of inbound PR: Used as the "dlid" field for outbound traffic in
   responder side.

This is aimed to support adaptive routing. With current IB routing
solution when a packet goes out it's assigned with a fixed DLID per
target, meaning a fixed router will be used.
The LIDs in inbound/outbound path records can be used to identify group
of routers that allow communication with another subnet's entity. With
them packets from an inter-subnet connection may travel through any
router in the set to reach the target.

As confirmed with Jason, when sending a netlink request, kernel uses
LS_RESOLVE_PATH_USE_ALL so that the service knows kernel supports
multiple PRs.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Zhang <markzhang@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarMark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2fa2b6c93c4c16c8915bac3cfc4f27be1d60519d.1662631201.git.leonro@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
parent bf9a9928
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