[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IPoIB/CM Enable SRQ support for HCAs with les than 16 s/g entries (in OFED 1.3)

Pradeep Satyanarayana pradeeps at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Jan 22 08:02:05 PST 2008


Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote:
>> Some HCAs like ehca2 support fewer than 16 SG entries. Currently IPoIB/CM
>> implicitly assumes all HCAs will support 16 SG entries of 4K pages for
>> 64K MTUs. This patch removes that restriction.
>>
>> This patch continues to use order 0 allocations and enables
>> implementation of connected mode on such HCAs with smaller MTUs. HCAs
>> having the capability to support 16 SG entries are left untouched.
>>
>> A version of this patch has been integrated into Roland's for-2.6.25
>> git tree for a couple of weeks. Here is a back ported version of that
>> patch (for OFED 1.3). Please consider for inclusion into OFED 1.3.
>>
>> This patch addresses bug# 728:
>> https://bugs.openfabrics.org/show_bug.cgi?id=728
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>
> 
> Applied to the ofed_1_3/linux-2.6.git ofed_kernel.

Thanks!
Pradeep




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