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+IP OVER INFINIBAND
+
+  The ib_ipoib driver is an implementation of the IP over InfiniBand
+  protocol as specified by RFC 4391 and 4392, issued by the IETF ipoib
+  working group.  It is a "native" implementation in the sense of
+  setting the interface type to ARPHRD_INFINIBAND and the hardware
+  address length to 20 (earlier proprietary implementations
+  masqueraded to the kernel as ethernet interfaces).
+
+Partitions and P_Keys
+
+  When the IPoIB driver is loaded, it creates one interface for each
+  port using the P_Key at index 0.  To create an interface with a
+  different P_Key, write the desired P_Key into the main interface's
+  /sys/class/net/<intf name>/create_child file.  For example:
+
+    echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/create_child
+
+  This will create an interface named ib0.8001 with P_Key 0x8001.  To
+  remove a subinterface, use the "delete_child" file:
+
+    echo 0x8001 > /sys/class/net/ib0/delete_child
+
+  The P_Key for any interface is given by the "pkey" file, and the
+  main interface for a subinterface is in "parent."
+
+  Child interface create/delete can also be done using IPoIB's
+  rtnl_link_ops, where childs created using either way behave the same.
+
+Datagram vs Connected modes
+
+  The IPoIB driver supports two modes of operation: datagram and
+  connected.  The mode is set and read through an interface's
+  /sys/class/net/<intf name>/mode file.
+
+  In datagram mode, the IB UD (Unreliable Datagram) transport is used
+  and so the interface MTU has is equal to the IB L2 MTU minus the
+  IPoIB encapsulation header (4 bytes).  For example, in a typical IB
+  fabric with a 2K MTU, the IPoIB MTU will be 2048 - 4 = 2044 bytes.
+
+  In connected mode, the IB RC (Reliable Connected) transport is used.
+  Connected mode takes advantage of the connected nature of the IB
+  transport and allows an MTU up to the maximal IP packet size of 64K,
+  which reduces the number of IP packets needed for handling large UDP
+  datagrams, TCP segments, etc and increases the performance for large
+  messages.
+
+  In connected mode, the interface's UD QP is still used for multicast
+  and communication with peers that don't support connected mode. In
+  this case, RX emulation of ICMP PMTU packets is used to cause the
+  networking stack to use the smaller UD MTU for these neighbours.
+
+Stateless offloads
+
+  If the IB HW supports IPoIB stateless offloads, IPoIB advertises
+  TCP/IP checksum and/or Large Send (LSO) offloading capability to the
+  network stack.
+
+  Large Receive (LRO) offloading is also implemented and may be turned
+  on/off using ethtool calls.  Currently LRO is supported only for
+  checksum offload capable devices.
+
+  Stateless offloads are supported only in datagram mode.  
+
+Interrupt moderation
+
+  If the underlying IB device supports CQ event moderation, one can
+  use ethtool to set interrupt mitigation parameters and thus reduce
+  the overhead incurred by handling interrupts.  The main code path of
+  IPoIB doesn't use events for TX completion signaling so only RX
+  moderation is supported.
+
+Debugging Information
+
+  By compiling the IPoIB driver with CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG set
+  to 'y', tracing messages are compiled into the driver.  They are
+  turned on by setting the module parameters debug_level and
+  mcast_debug_level to 1.  These parameters can be controlled at
+  runtime through files in /sys/module/ib_ipoib/.
+
+  CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG also enables files in the debugfs
+  virtual filesystem.  By mounting this filesystem, for example with
+
+    mount -t debugfs none /sys/kernel/debug
+
+  it is possible to get statistics about multicast groups from the
+  files /sys/kernel/debug/ipoib/ib0_mcg and so on.
+
+  The performance impact of this option is negligible, so it
+  is safe to enable this option with debug_level set to 0 for normal
+  operation.
+
+  CONFIG_INFINIBAND_IPOIB_DEBUG_DATA enables even more debug output in
+  the data path when data_debug_level is set to 1.  However, even with
+  the output disabled, enabling this configuration option will affect
+  performance, because it adds tests to the fast path.
+
+References
+
+  Transmission of IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) (RFC 4391)
+    http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4391.txt 
+  IP over InfiniBand (IPoIB) Architecture (RFC 4392)
+    http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4392.txt 
+  IP over InfiniBand: Connected Mode (RFC 4755)
+    http://ietf.org/rfc/rfc4755.txt