[ofa-general] [PATCH 1/11] IB/ipoib: high dma support

[Eli Cohen]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:22 +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Eli Cohen wrote:
> > Add high dma support to ipoib
> > 
> > This patch assumes all IB devices support 64 bit DMA.
> 
> On some architectures DMA addresses are 32 bit, so I am not sure to 
> follow your comment. This capability states that the network device can 
> dma to high memory.
> 
> Or.
> 

I believe it means that *if* the kernel hands buffers whose addresses
exceed 32 bits then the device can handle them.