[ofa-general] [PATCH 1/11] IB/ipoib: high dma support

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Tue Sep 25 03:22:24 PDT 2007


Eli Cohen wrote:
> Add high dma support to ipoib
> 
> This patch assumes all IB devices support 64 bit DMA.

On some architectures DMA addresses are 32 bit, so I am not sure to 
follow your comment. This capability states that the network device can 
dma to high memory.

Or.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Eli Cohen <eli at mellnaox.co.il>
> 
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-2.6.23-rc1/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.23-rc1.orig/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2007-08-15 20:50:16.000000000 +0300
> +++ linux-2.6.23-rc1/drivers/infiniband/ulp/ipoib/ipoib_main.c	2007-08-15 20:50:27.000000000 +0300
> @@ -1079,6 +1079,8 @@ static struct net_device *ipoib_add_port
>  
>  	SET_NETDEV_DEV(priv->dev, hca->dma_device);
>  
> +	priv->dev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;




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