[ofa-general] RE: [PATCH] RDMA/nes: Improved use of pbls

[Tung, Chien Tin]

> > Also, fixed two places where the software pbl counts were changed
> > before the hardware was updated.  This bug allowed another thread
> > to overallocate the hardware resources.
>
>This patch is big enough that I think it needs to be deferred to 2.6.30
>given where 2.6.29 is in the release cycle.  However if this problem
>causes problems in practice maybe we should split it out and 
>get it into
>2.6.29?

I can split the patch into two to get the two small fixes in 2.6.29.
But do consider the PBL improvements for 2.6.29 as we've been running
with this code for the last two months on our cluster without issues.

Two patches to come later today.

Thanks for the feedback.

Chien