[ofa-general] [PATCH RFC] RDMA/cxgb3: Fixes for zero-stag.

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Fri Jun 27 21:43:23 PDT 2008


 > 2) an individual SGE length cannot exceed 128MB for a zero-stag SGE.
 > This is ok since its not possible to allocate such a large chunk of
 > pinned contiguous dma-coherent memory.

I guess this is OK, although conceivably one could get a huge region
through chicanery like reserving memory at boot or something like that.

 > TODO: 
 > 
 > Bump the required fw major number since the driver/fw interface has changed.

So I assume this patch isn't really baked enough to merge yet?

 - R.



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