[ofa-general] Verbs: IB vs. iWARP
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Sat May 10 16:18:45 PDT 2008
Roland Dreier wrote:
> > One more item added to the wiki page:
> >
> >
> > * iWARP RNICs support a special privileged lkey == 0 which can be
> > used in local SGLs when the address is a bus/dma address.
>
> I think under Linux this is pretty much irrelevant, given that we have
> ib_get_dma_mr(). And the IB BMME define the same concept anyway.
>
> - R.
Its not irrelevant if someone tries to port an iwarp app to IB and said
iwarp app uses lkey 0 everywhere...
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