[openib-general] Re: InfiniBand MAD device number request

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Fri Jan 14 10:31:35 PST 2005


    Torben> But, initially we were talking 32 or 64 minors, now its 2K
    Torben> or 4K? If you really need that many, no problem, but try
    Torben> to think about if its really necessary.  Thats a LOT of
    Torben> minors.

Fair enough, I was just getting overexcited by all the space that's
available up there.  Let's just allocate 64 minors for
/dev/infiniband/umad0 ... /dev/infiniband/umad63 and be ready to
allocate at least two or three more chunks for 64 minors soon.

Thanks,
  Roland



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