[openib-general] questions about gen2 srp driver

[chas williams - CONTRACTOR]

In message <adak6c8hs9v.fsf at cisco.com>,Roland Dreier writes:
>Yes, it's exactly because we know that work queues run in process
>context with interrupts enabled which lets us use spin_lock_irq.

thanks for the reply.  you are quite right.  i dont know what i was
thinking.

>There's no limitation on number of outstanding RDMAs targeting a
>single R_Key.

after looking at it further i finally see what the srp driver is
doing.  i didnt know that the rkey/lkey it gets during init applies
to entire host memory.  now, things make a little more sense.  part
of my confusion is that ->va really seems to mean physical address
not virtual address.