[openib-general] curious warning message (gen1, ibgd, possibly ot)

[Tom Duffy]

On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 19:48 +0100, Peter Kjellström wrote:
> Hello folks,
> 
> I'm sorry if this is kind of off-topic for this list but I suspect that there 
> are quite a few people on this list that can answer my rather simple 
> question.
> 
> Every time the tavor-driver loads I see these (kinda scary) warnings:
> 
> THH kernel module initialized successfully VAPI(2): thhul_qpm.c[2140]: 
> ***WARNING***: AVs for special QPs should use HOST memory; the provided PD 
> has its AVs in DDR memory.
> (repeated four times)
> 
> Does anybody know what this means (it's not exactly english to me ;). Can it 
> be safely ignored? (the systems seems to humm along nicely..)

Any reason not to use gen2?

The message looks like it is saying that the driver is using the memory
on board the Arbel card instead of main system memory when it shouldn't.
Not sure what the consequences are of doing this.

-tduffy
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