RE: [PATCH rdma-next v2 0/4] RDMA/mana_ib: allow separate mana_ib for each mana client

From: Long Li
Date: Sat Apr 26 2025 - 13:31:16 EST


> Subject: [PATCH rdma-next v2 0/4] RDMA/mana_ib: allow separate mana_ib for
> each mana client
>
> Microsoft mana adapter has 2 devices in the HW: mana ethernet device and
> RNIC device.
> Both devices can implement RDMA drivers and, so far, they have been sharing
> one ib device context. However, they are different devices with different
> capabilities in the HW and have different lifetime model.
>
> This series allows us to model the aforementioned two devices as separate ib
> devices.
> The mana_ib will continue supporting two devices but as individual ib devices.
> It enables the driver to dynamically destroy and create the auxiliary device over
> RNIC, when the HW reboots the RNIC module. Without this separation, the
> reboot would cause destruction of the ib device serving DPDK clients from the
> uninterrupted ethernet HW module.

There are test failures. Please ignore this patch set.

Thanks,
Long