[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC] P_Key support for umad

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH][RFC] P_Key support for umad
> 
> Here is a long overdue patch to enable userspace to control the P_Key
> index used for userspace MADs.  I used the approach we discussed when
> this first came up, namely adding an ioctl to enable to the new
> interface so that existing binaries don't break.
> 
> I haven't had a chance to make all the userspace library changes to
> test the new interface and I likely won't until I return home (I
> should be done traveling for a few months after this week).  I have
> tested existing code against a kernel with this patch applied and it
> seems to be OK, and I wanted to at least get this out for review as
> soon as I had it.
> 
> Please review/test.  I would like to get this into 2.6.24 if possible
> since we've known so long that we needed it.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Roland

BTW
Can this ioctl be used to address the 32/64 bit issues that we have,
somehow?

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