[openib-general] ucma into kernel.org

[Steve Wise]

| On 6/16/06, Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com> wrote:
| > Steve Wise wrote:
| > > Will the ucma make it into 2.6.18?  I notice its not in Roland's
| > > for-2.6.18 tree right now.
| >
| > The plan is to allow the userspace interface to mature some before 
trying to
| > merge them upstream.  This is why it is not included in 2.6.18.
|
| Hi Sean,
|
| Can you remind (me...) what areas of the cma u/k interface seem to be
| not mature enough?
|
| upstream CMA can be a significant step in the sense of distros (eg
| SLES10 SP1 and RH5) kernel IB functional enough for production, as the
| primary inteface for "RDMA communication managment" the uCMA is and
| would be vastly used, so there should be good reason why not to push
| it for 2.6.18 .
|

I agree that it would be nice to get this into 2.6.18.  It seems stable 
enough IMO.

Steve.