[ofa-general] mthca max_sge value... ugh.
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Fri May 16 11:13:38 PDT 2008
> Given that you have quite different WQE overheads depending on the transport,
> a conservative max_sge value that works for all transports wastes one or two
> entries on some others. Maybe once the QP is created, it could report
> the actual max_sge value (which may actually be greater than the conservative,
> transport-independent max_sge estimate of the device).
Is using 27 S/G entries vs, say 29 really a big problem?
The interface exists for the driver to return the actual capabilities
returned, but the mthca code is a bit of a mess and I think it would
require a decent amount of cleanup work to do this sanely.
- R.
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