[openib-general] Re: [openib-commits] r1983 - gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/hw/mthca

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Mon Mar 14 10:51:04 PST 2005


    Hal> I thought this would be a larger number, around 64K. That's
    Hal> what I think gen1 sees. Is 4 correct (for gen2) ?

The initiator number may be slightly bogus but the target number is
correct.  Each RDMA request takes 32 bytes of context memory at the
target, so I don't see how a driver could support 64K outstanding
RDMAs per QP (that would be 64K * 32 bytes * ~64K possible QPs = 128GB
of context memory).

 - R.



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