[ofa-general][PATCH] NFS-RDMA fix for connectX fast registration wr,

Vu Pham vuhuong at mellanox.com
Mon Mar 23 12:42:43 PDT 2009


Tziporet Koren wrote:
> Vu Pham wrote:
>> Tom,
>>
>>> Vu - I noticed this wasn't a usual kernel patch, so I've recoded it
>>> as a patch against Trond's tree, where I have the connectathon
>>> patches queued too. I can send it to him with your signed-off-by,
>>> if that's ok.
>>>
>>>   
>> Here is the kernel patch. It's tested with latest connectX FW (2.6.636)
>>
>>
>>> I do want to be sure the patch is tested though. Does it work on
>>> earlier COnnectX firmware that may not support FRMR? I assume
>>> that fw doesn't set the bits the verbs.c file is looking for to detect
>>> FRMR support... correct?
>>>   
>>
>> The patch does not work with old FW.
>> The old fw set the bit; however, it has bug on FRWR
>>
>> thanks,
>> -vu
>
> But I think we have to push the new code
> A drop of the FW with a fix is already available and it will be GA in 
> few months
> Vu - do we need any fix for OFED 1.4.1 too?

Yes - I already sent to Tom patch to mainline kernel and to Jon the 
patch for ofed-1.4.1-rc2

-vu



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