[GEDI] [PATCH-for-9.1] rdma: Remove RDMA subsystem and pvrdma device

[Daniel P. Berrangé]

On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 01:57:27PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 28/3/24 10:06, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 11:55:48AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > The whole RDMA subsystem was deprecated in commit e9a54265f5
> > > ("hw/rdma: Deprecate the pvrdma device and the rdma subsystem")
> > > released in v8.2. Time to remove it.
> > > 
> > > Keep the RAM_SAVE_FLAG_HOOK definition since it might appears
> > > in old migration streams.
> > > 
> > > Remove the dependencies on libibumad and libibverbs.
> > 
> > > 
> > > Remove the generated vmw_pvrdma/ directory from linux-headers.
> > > 
> > > Remove RDMA handling from migration.
> > > 
> > > Remove RDMA handling in GlusterFS block driver.
> > 
> > The RDMA support in GlusterFS is completely opaque to QEMU.
> > All we have there is the CLI syntax to enable use of the
> > RDMA support inside libglusterfs. I'm not convinced that
> > the justification for deprecation (lack of maintanier)
> > applies to this scenario.
> 
> I'll quote commit 0552ff2465 from 2016 then:
> 
>     block/gluster: deprecate rdma support
> 
>     gluster volfile server fetch happens through unix and/or tcp,
>     it doesn't support volfile fetch over rdma. The rdma code may
>     actually mislead, so to make sure things do not break, for now
>     we fallback to tcp when requested for rdma, with a warning.
> 
>     If you are wondering how this worked all these days, its the gluster
>     libgfapi code which handles anything other than unix transport as
>     socket/tcp, sad but true.

Ok, that should have been mentioned in the commit message
then, and is another reason for removing each functional
area in a separate commit, with the relevant notes for each.

With regards,
Daniel
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