[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH for-2.6.27 1/2] RDMA/Core: Add local dma lkey support.

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jul 8 11:39:01 PDT 2008


 > I assumed that since the PD protection couldn't be enforced, that
 > cxgb3 shouldn't take this approach.  But yea, if we ignore the pd
 > issue, cxgb3 could hide this in a dma-mr, for local access only.

I guess this is probably the right idea.  It's a little unfortunate that
ULPs have to try the local_lkey and then fall back to get_dma_mr() but
oh well.



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