[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH REPOST RFCv2 1/2] RDMA/Core: Add local dma lkey support.
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Tue Jul 1 07:16:31 PDT 2008
Or Gerlitz wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
>> > --- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/iwch_provider.c
>> > + dev->ibdev.local_dma_lkey = 0;
>>
>> why this specific initialization but not in nes or amso1100? I think
>> the device structure is zeroed out on allocation anyway.
> To prevent confusion, lets have it documented somewhere that in the
> iwarp case IB_DEVICE_LOCAL_DMA_LKEY refers to zero-stag and as the
> name suggest its an lkey which equals zero, how does this sound?
>
I don't see the benefit. Folks can read the RDMA Consortium verbs if
they want to understand about 0 stag.
Steve.
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