[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 10/10] IB/ehca: Support large page MRs

[Joachim Fenkes]

Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 17.07.2007 05:50:13:

>  > > Why the module parameter?  Is there any reason a user would want to
>  > > turn this off?  Or conversely, why is it off by default?
>  > 
>  > We're pretty confident this new feature works, but as with all new 
and 
>  > possibly experimental features, there are chances it might explode 
your 
>  > machine when activated. So, like with the scaling code, we want the 
user 
>  > to make the conscious decision of using this code instead of 
activating it 
>  > by default.
> 
> OK, I guess.  So can we expect to, say, change the default to turning
> it on for 2.6.24 and remove the option entirely (so it's always on) in
> 2.6.25?

Deal.

Joachim