[ofa-general] [PATCH] IB/mlx4: Use pgprot_writecombine() for BlueFlame pages

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Sun Mar 29 09:35:44 PDT 2009


 > Can you elaborate a little on the expected latency benefit? If we see
 > today 1us half rtt for small messages, with this patch it should go
 > below? be the same for larger messages? anything else?

This should bring mainline kernel small message latency to the same
level that OFED gets with the PAT support it hacks in.

 - R.



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