[ewg] [PATCH] ib_core: save process's virtual address in struct ib_umem
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jan 26 09:59:26 PST 2009
> add "address" field to struct ib_umem so low level drivers will have this
> information which may be needed in order to correctly calculate the number of
> huge pages.
seems like a really strange thing to do:
+ umem->address = addr;
this value addr is coming from the low-level driver, so I'm not clear
why we need to stick it into umem? What am I missing?
- R.
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