[openib-general] [PATCH v4 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Jan 3 21:07:22 PST 2007


> If you think I should not add the udata parameter to the req_notify_cq()
> provider verb, then I can rework the chelsio driver:
> 
> 1) at cq creation time, pass the virtual address of the u32 used by the
> library to track the current cq index.  That way the chelsio kernel
> driver can save the address in its kernel cq context for later use.
> 
> 2) change chelsio's req_notify_cq() to copy in the current cq index
> value directly for rearming.
> 
> This puts all the burden on the chelsio driver, which is apparently the
> only one that needs this functionality.  

Good thinking, I haven't thought of this approach.

This way there won't be any API/core changes and no changes to
other low level drivers, correct? And for chelsio, there's no overhead
as compared to code you posted.

Sounds good.

-- 
MST




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