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nvme-tcp-offload: Add nvme-tcp-offload - NVMeTCP HW offload ULP

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This patch will present the structure for the NVMeTCP offload common
layer driver. This module is added under "drivers/nvme/host/" and future
offload drivers which will register to it will be placed under
"drivers/nvme/hw".
This new driver will be enabled by the Kconfig "NVM Express over Fabrics
TCP offload commmon layer".
In order to support the new transport type, for host mode, no change is
needed.

Each new vendor-specific offload driver will register to this ULP during
its probe function, by filling out the nvme_tcp_ofld_dev->ops and
nvme_tcp_ofld_dev->private_data and calling nvme_tcp_ofld_register_dev
with the initialized struct.

The internal implementation:
- tcp-offload.h:
  Includes all common structs and ops to be used and shared by offload
  drivers.

- tcp-offload.c:
  Includes the init function which registers as a NVMf transport just
  like any other transport.

Acked-by: Igor Russkikh <irusskikh@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Dean Balandin <dbalandin@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Prabhakar Kushwaha <pkushwaha@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Omkar Kulkarni <okulkarni@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Kalderon <mkalderon@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Ariel Elior <aelior@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Shai Malin <smalin@marvell.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Himanshu Madhani <himanshu.madhani@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Shai Malin 2021-06-02 21:42:39 +03:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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