[ofa-general] [PATCH v1] mlx4: implement MOD_STAT_CFG command to use for changing ConnectX page size

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Tue May 20 02:12:37 PDT 2008


Vladimir Sokolovsky wrote:
> There is a bug in the OFED 1.3 mlx4 driver in mlx4_alloc_fmr which 
> hardcoded
> the minimum acceptable page_shift to be 12. However, new mlx4 firmware 
> has a
> minimum page_shift of 9 (log_pg_sz of 9 returned by QUERY_DEV_LIM) -- 
> so that
> ib_fmr_alloc fails for ULPs using the device minimum when creating FMRs.
Please remove the word OFED from the change-log, the bug is in the mlx4 
driver, period, it was not added by patches merged into ofed. Also 
replace "mlx4 firmware" with "connectx firmware" as mlx4 is not the name 
of any HW product and this text can confuse.

Or.




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