[ofa-general] [PATCH/RFC] Add support for "send with invalidate"	to	libibverbs
    Roland Dreier 
    rdreier at cisco.com
       
    Wed Apr  2 09:25:35 PDT 2008
    
    
  
 > Why do you need the flag IBV_DEVICE_MEM_WINDOW?
 > If the value of device_attributes.num_mw is more than zero => the
 > device supports memory windows, so i think this flag
 > can be safely removed.
OK, I'll delete it from the libibverbs changes.  I guess we can kill it
on the kernel side too.
 > I think that the send & invalidate should be a new opcode instead of a
 > send flag.
That makes sense.  All existing hardware seems to use a separate opcode
in the HW WQE format, so it makes things cleaner to use a new opcode at
the verbs API level too.
I'll update my patches.
Thanks,
  Roland
    
    
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