[ofa-general] Re: When is the next planned release of libmlx4?

Tziporet Koren tziporet at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Jun 16 08:00:45 PDT 2009


Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 21:22 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>   
>>
>> That makes sense.  The HW documentation says that blueflame writes must
>> be done in aligned chunks of at least 4 bytes, so it's not surprising
>> that byte writes confuse the HW in some cases.
>>     
>
> Hi Roland.  I'm removing the XRC patch from our kernel like we discussed
> (for the other people on the list, it's because the XRC API is likely to
> change by the time integration into the official packages are done, and
> we don't want to ship one API for the support now and then a different
> API later).  This also means that I need to respin libibverbs and all
> driver packages.  However, my deadline is *very* tight for getting this
> done.  Any chance I could talk you into rushing the release?  Today
> would be best, but tomorrow would work too.
>
>   
Doug
Have you taken the new write-combining patch in the kernel that will 
enable the fast pass (blueflame) in the driver to work?
If not then it is not that important to have the new library

Tziporet




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