[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH] mlx4_ib: Allow 4K messages for UD QPs

Eli Cohen eli at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Aug 7 08:46:44 PDT 2008


On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:27:46AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
> What is the impact of the current situation?  Is this an enhancement for
> 2.6.28, or does it fix a real-world problem and should go to 2.6.27?

The impact is that if you have the HCA FW that supports 4K MTU, you
won't be able to send 4K UD messages since the HCA will limit you due
to this configuration. So I think we want to push this to 2.6.27 too.
> 
>  > Signed-off-by: Alex Naslednikov <xalex at mellanox.co.il>
>  > Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli at mellanox.co.il>
> 
> Does this mean Alex was the original author?  If so there should be a
> line like
> 
>     From: Alex Naslednikov <xalex at mellanox.co.il>
> 
> before the changelog entry too.
> 
Sure, the patch is Alex's. Next time...



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