[openib-general] Reserved L_Key API

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Tue Sep 14 21:54:45 PDT 2004


    Michael> Dont you want to basically create a physical memory
    Michael> region covering the whole 64 bit range, and then post
    Michael> full phy addresses in the WQE?  Cant you do exactly that
    Michael> with existing API?

Yes, that's the natural thing to try.  However, as understand it,
Tavor is limited to 2 GB pages, which means covering the whole 64-bit
range is going to take 8 billion pages, which clearly will overflow
any conceivable context memory.  Other devices are likely to have
similar limitations.

 - Roland



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