Smith, Stan wrote on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 at 10:04:37:

> Forwarded due to mailer problems @ Qlogic.
> 
> From: John Russo [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:17 AM
>
> 1.       Each ULP that passes a physical address to WinOF needs to also
> pass a virtual address for the same block for us to be able to use it.

The ULPs don't necessarily control this.  For example, SRP I believe gets 
physical addresses only, from the storport driver.  I believe there are 
performance implications to forcing virtual addresses to be used.  I think NDIS 
might have similar issues, though the IPoIB driver already takes the perf hit 
by mapping the Ethernet header into the kernel address space so that it can do 
the MAC to GID/LID translation.

-Fab
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