[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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