Re: [openib-general] [PATCH] kDAPL: cleanup dat/ a bit more

2005-06-06 Thread David Addison
Caitlin Bestler wrote: On 6/4/05, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Quadrics patch informed zero copy devices of new mappings, but does so when the device is not actively doing work. That latter piece of information is not available for an RDMA device. For normal devices the OS

Re: [openib-general] Re: RDMA memory registration

2005-05-03 Thread David Addison
Grant Grundler wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 08:22:24PM +0200, Brice Goglin wrote: For instance, instead of adding PROT_DONT/ALWAYSCOPY, you may use an ioproc hook in the fork path. This hook (a function in your driver) would be called for each registered page. It will decide whether the page shou

Re: [openib-general] Re: RDMA memory registration

2005-05-03 Thread David Addison
Ronald G. Minnich wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Greg Lindahl wrote: It doesn't imply that there's an MMU, either. I know that Myricom uses a little lookup routine in software on their nic, which most people wouldn't call an MMU. I don't know what Mellanox does for this, they don't talk much about wha

Re: [openib-general] Re: RDMA memory registration

2005-05-03 Thread David Addison
Greg Lindahl wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:33:54PM -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: Being mostly clueless about Quadrics implementation, I'm probably missing something that makes Quadrics a MMU but not the IB variants. Can someone clue me in please? As far as I can tell it's mostly a marketing dist