[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] enable the fmr pool user to set the page size

Dan Bar Dov bardov at gmail.com
Wed Jan 18 02:45:06 PST 2006


On 1/17/06, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
> Seems reasonable.  Unfortunately we just missed the 2.6.16-rc1 window
> so I think this should wait for the 2.6.17 window.
>
> BTW, do you ever see the SCSI layer giving you 512 byte blocks?

Yes, mostly those are sg elements that are contiguous with other
elements to page_size.
In some rare cases, we see non-contiguous elements smaller than
page_size (or 4K) which are non-rdma-able as a single unit, in such
cases we must copy.

>
>  - R.
> _______________________________________________
> openib-general mailing list
> openib-general at openib.org
> http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
>
> To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
>



More information about the general mailing list