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  1. config RDMA_RXE
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  2. 	tristate "Software RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) driver"
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  3. 	depends on INET && PCI && INFINIBAND
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  4. 	depends on NET_UDP_TUNNEL
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  5. 	depends on CRYPTO_CRC32
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  6. 	select DMA_VIRT_OPS
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  7. 	---help---
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  8. 	This driver implements the InfiniBand RDMA transport over
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  9. 	the Linux network stack. It enables a system with a
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  10. 	standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a RoCE
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  11. 	adapter or with another system running the RXE driver.
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  12. 	Documentation on InfiniBand and RoCE can be downloaded at
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  13. 	www.infinibandta.org and www.openfabrics.org. (See also
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  14. 	siw which is a similar software driver for iWARP.)
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  16. 	The driver is split into two layers, one interfaces with the
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  17. 	Linux RDMA stack and implements a kernel or user space
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  18. 	verbs API. The user space verbs API requires a support
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  19. 	library named librxe which is loaded by the generic user
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  20. 	space verbs API, libibverbs. The other layer interfaces
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  21. 	with the Linux network stack at layer 3.
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  23. 	To configure and work with soft-RoCE driver please use the
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  24. 	following wiki page under "configure Soft-RoCE (RXE)" section:
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  26. 	https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/blob/master/Documentation/rxe.md
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