RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Patch net-next v2] net: mana: Record doorbell physical address in PF mode

From: Long Li
Date: Tue Jun 17 2025 - 21:36:26 EST


> Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v2] net: mana: Record doorbell physical
> address in PF mode
>
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2025 10:46:05 -0700 longli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > MANA supports RDMA in PF mode. The driver should record the doorbell
> > physical address when in PF mode.
> >
> > The doorbell physical address is used by the RDMA driver to map
> > doorbell pages of the device to user-mode applications through RDMA
> > verbs interface. In the past, they have been mapped to user-mode while
> > the device is in VF mode. With the support for PF mode implemented,
> > also expose those pages in PF mode.
>
> It'd be good to indicate if the PF mode support is implemented as in ready to be
> posted to the list, or implemented as in already in the tree? If it's in tree then
> please quote the commit. If upcoming please rephrase.
>
> This commit msg is much better, thank you, but to a person handling backports it
> will still not be immediately clear whether this is prep work for a new code path,
> or a bug fix.
> --
> pw-bot: cr

Thank you. I'm sending v3.

Long