[ofa-general][PATCH 4/12 v2] mlx4: Pre reserved Qp regions

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Jun 10 07:17:34 PDT 2008


 > The parameters that we wanted to be log2 values are those that must be
 > a power of 2.
 > These new parameters do not have this limitation, and thus no need for
 > log2 requirement.

How the heck is the end-user supposed to know or care which parameters
are which?

Plus:

 > +module_param_named(num_mac, num_mac, int, 0444);
 > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(num_mac, "Maximum number of MACs per ETH port "
 > +		  "(1-127, default 1)");

 > +	dev->caps.log_num_macs  = ilog2(roundup_pow_of_two(num_mac + 1));

and so on...

so it sure looks like a power of two to me.



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