[openib-general] Reserved L_Key API
Roland Dreier
roland at topspin.com
Tue Sep 14 21:54:45 PDT 2004
Michael> Dont you want to basically create a physical memory
Michael> region covering the whole 64 bit range, and then post
Michael> full phy addresses in the WQE? Cant you do exactly that
Michael> with existing API?
Yes, that's the natural thing to try. However, as understand it,
Tavor is limited to 2 GB pages, which means covering the whole 64-bit
range is going to take 8 billion pages, which clearly will overflow
any conceivable context memory. Other devices are likely to have
similar limitations.
- Roland
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