[openib-general] more comments on cxgb3
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Feb 8 07:34:10 PST 2007
> > - It seems that by passing in huge resource sizes, userspace will be able to
> > drink up unlimited amounts of kernel memory.
> > mthca handles this by using the mlock rlimit, should something be done here
> > as well?
>
> Hmm. That's a good point. I'll put this on the todo as well. So mthca
> adds to process's rlimit value as things are allocated out of kernel
> memory (or maybe even anything that gets pinned)?
Yes. The code is actually in uverbs core, mthca uses that.
> > - I wonder about the names like get_mhp - what does "mhp" mean?
> > static inline struct iwch_mr *get_mhp(struct iwch_dev *rhp, u32 mmid)
> > {
> > return idr_find(&rhp->mmidr, mmid);
> > }
> >
>
> Memory Handle Pointer.
hmm, what's a Handle? Maybe a better name can be found.
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MST
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