[openib-general] Re: DMA mapping on sparc64

[Roland Dreier]

    Michael> I think this is going to break anyway when you actually
    Michael> have more than 4G memory that you can DMA into.  I think
    Michael> its more portable to allocate mads out of some pool,
    Michael> registering this pool with an lkey.

Oh yeah... I forgot to mention that the MAD pool idea doesn't help for
IPoIB, SDP, ... (where we can't control where the buffers we need to
use are allocated)

 - R.