[ofa-general] [RFC 0/1] libmthca: CQ/DMA race on Altix

akepner at sgi.com akepner at sgi.com
Mon Jul 16 15:00:54 PDT 2007


On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:57:35AM +0300, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:

> This will potentially break a bunch of things that assume the only
> valid values of direction are NONE, TO_DEVICE, FROM_DEVICE, or BOTH
> (e.g., include/linux/dma-mapping.h:valid_dma_direction()).

I think I've got this covered in a reasonably unobjectionable 
way.

> ....
> Looks like we need to harness the collective power of lkml. Better
> hope everyone isn't distracted by the flamewar-du-jour.
> 

I'm preparing my asbestos suit now.

-- 
Arthur




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