[openib-general] question: ib_umem page_size
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Aug 15 13:08:54 PDT 2006
Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: question: ib_umem page_size
>
> Michael> Roland, could you please clarify what does the page_size
> Michael> field in struct ib_mem do?
>
> It gives the page size for the user memory described by the struct.
> The idea was that if/when someone tries to optimize for huge pages,
> then the low-level driver can know that a region is using huge pages
> without having to walk through the page list and search for the
> minimum physically contiguous size.
Thoguth though. Cool, that's exactly what I'm trying to do.
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MST
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