Enhanced mode for IPoIB driver

Hi Doug,

This patchset mostly comes from Erez with one exception in the first patch.

That patch origins from two different commits, first from Niranjana who added RDMA netdev interface and second from Erez who added IPoIB support.

During the preparation to submission, I squashed their commits into one and refactored code to allow submission as a standalone topic without creating dependecies between different submissions. This caused to change in author line. I hope that it doesn't really matter and it won't stop you from merging it.

Per-your request, I based this patch set on v4.11-rc3.

Thanks,
Leon

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The rest comes from Erez:

The IPoIB protocol encapsulates IP packets over Infiniband datagrams. As a direct RDMA Upper Layer Protocol (ULP), IPoIB cannot support HW features that are specific to the IP protocol stack.

Nevertheless, RDMA interfaces have been extended to support some of the prominent IP offload features, such as TCP/UDP checksum and TSO. This provided reasonable performance gain for IPoIB but is still insufficient to cope with the increasing network bandwidth demand.

However, New features are exisiting in common network interfaces that are very hard to implement in IPoIB interfaces while it uses the RDMA layer, examples include TSS and RSS, tunneling offloads, and XDP. Rather than continuously porting IP network interface developments into the RDMA stack, we propose adding an abstract network data-path interfaces to RDMA devices.

In order to present a consistent interface to users, the IPoIB ULP continues to represent the network device to the IP stack. The common code also manages the IPoIB control plane, such as resolving path queries and registering to multicast groups.
Data path operations are forwarded to devices that implement the new API, or fallback to the standard implementation otherwise. Using the forgoing approach, we show how IPoIB closes the performance gap compared to state-of-the-art Ethernet network interfaces.

The implementation idea is to use the api of alloc_rdma_netdev/free_rdma_netdev to expose a struct that has data members and set of functions that are used for IB network interfaces, like attach/detach multicast to qp, and send IB packet.

The functions are specific for IB operations and are not part of the common api the the netdev struct exposes via the ndo functions.
1. multicast handling - attach/detach
2. send operation - the ndo start_xmit has only 2 parameters and the IB send needs the destination qp and the ah object, there were few options to handle it via the netdev ndo, but they don't make more sense than using a specific send function (we are rdma_netdev after all)

The IPoIB code will be adapted to enable the option of accelerating the network interface, but the code will work as before if the HW below doesn't support the acceleration.
That means that in the default mode of ipoib I tried to keep it as much as it was before, not to force it to adopt the new api, where there is no code sharing between the ipoib and the vnic/hfi.
The default code uses the controll and the data, the accelerator uses only the control flows andstructors.
The changes of the default ipoib can be made on top of that series.

Each HW vendor can supply the acceleration for the IPoIB or to leave IPoIB to work as before.

Thanks,
Erez

Erez Shitrit (5):
IB/IPoIB: Separate control and data related initializations IB/IPoIB: Separate control from HW operation on ipoib_open/stop ndo IB/IPoIB: Rename qpn to be dqpn in ipoib_send and post_send functions IB/IPoIB: Formatting before adding accelerator to driver IB/IPoIB: Support acceleration options callbacks

Leon Romanovsky (1):
IB/IPoIB: Introduce RDMA netdev interface and IPoIB structs

 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib.h           |  40 +--
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_cm.c        |  66 ++---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ethtool.c   |   6 +-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_fs.c        |   4 +-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_ib.c        | 339 +++++++++++++------------
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c      | 312 +++++++++++++++++------
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_multicast.c |  39 +--
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_netlink.c   |  12 +-
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_verbs.c     |  64 ++---
 drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_vlan.c      |   9 +-
 include/rdma/ib_verbs.h                        |  41 +++
 11 files changed, 565 insertions(+), 367 deletions(-)

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