On 9/11/2012 4:43 PM, Roland Dreier wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Ledford <dledf...@redhat.com> wrote: >> Well, at this point, the mlx4 driver uses them, the rdmacm kernel driver >> uses them, and both QLogic/Intel drivers have their own internal pkey >> table implementation. So, it isn't so much upper layer as it is drivers. > > rdmacm is an upper-level protocol (it's above the midlayer / hardware > abstraction).
Yeah, I know. My point wasn't that it was a low level item, just that
it's the only upper layer consumer that I saw.
> mlx4 and mthca look up P_Keys because of internal details of how they
> send MADs, and really they should move to maintaining their own P_Key
> table too.
Why not make the routines useful for all users instead of multiple
implementations of the same thing?
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