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<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have
been following this and the other thread on CMA. There appears to be some
opinions to removing the ib_at module and introduce CMA.<br>
Is that correct? <br>
<br>
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<p><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:navy'>The proposal is to remove ATS, which is only a portion of
ib_at, and instead use ARP to resolve addresses.</span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br>
True, CMA will need some form of address translation. Can we not use some
incarnation of ib_at for that? I realize that ib_at has a net_device<br>
refcnt problem. Is this refcnt problem a usage issue rather than just a bug in
the implementation? How would CMA solve the refcnt issue?<br>
What am I missing?</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:5.25pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Some incarnation of ib_at
will be needed, and portions of either the ib_at or SDP code will likely be
used.</span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:5.25pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>- Sean</span></font></p>
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