[ewg] Re: [ofw] SC'09 BOF - Meeting notes

[Eli Cohen]

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 04:18:35PM +0200, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> 
> I see this code in a patch whose commit log has the following "Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:29:07 +0300" and "Subject: [PATCH 11/13] mlx4: Add support for RDMAoE - address resolution"
> 
> +struct ib_ah *mlx4_ib_create_ah(struct ib_pd *pd, struct ib_ah_attr *ah_attr)
> [...]
> +			/* TBD: need to handle the case when we get called
> +			in an atomic context and there we might sleep. We
> +			don't expect this currently since we're working with
> +			link local addresses which we can translate without
> +			going to sleep */
> +			ret = create_rdmaoe_ah(pd, ah_attr, ah);
> 
> are all the addresses which this code will run to serve are link local?
Addresses (e.g. GIDs) may be either link local or mulitcast; in both 
cases the translation is immediate.

> also what patch set version is present in the ofed 1.5 rdmaoe branch?
OFED rdmaoe is based on v6. It has a some fixes in it which I intend 
to send to the rdma list as distinct patches (on top of v6 rather then
sending a v7 series).