[ewg] Re: pkey change handling patch

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Thu Apr 26 09:00:29 PDT 2007


> Quoting Yosef Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: pkey change handling patch
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >>Quoting Moni Levy <monil at voltaire.com>:
> >>Subject: Re: pkey change handling patch
> >>
> >>On 4/25/07, Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>If you want to tackle more of the cache elimination plan we discussed
> >>>that would be great though.
> >>>
> >>
> >>One more issue I looked into that in my opinion needs to be discussed
> >>is that we do not have an easy api that should provide us with the
> >>whole PKEY table and one for the whole GID table for a specific port.
> >>I know that ib_process_mad can be used it's just not user friendly.
> >>The only thing we have now is ib_query_pkey that gets us one pkey from
> >>a specific index and is implemented to get the 32 pkeys chunks under
> >>the hood (and something similar for gids). Do we need something like
> >>ib_get_pkey_table & ib_get_gid_table calls ? Just an interesting fact:
> >>ib_cache_update on a Mellanox card performs 64 + 64 + 1 = 129 commands
> >>instead the really needed 5 :)
> > 
> > 
> > If the intended usage is to speed up ib_cache_update, the point is
> > moot I think since we agreed we are getting rid of it.
> > 
> 
> Which source file the without-caching functions should go to?

verbs.c?

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