On Sat, Jan 08 2005, Roland Dreier wrote: > Torben> How many minors do you guys need? char majors are very > Torben> scarce, so if you know how many you need, we can make the > Torben> best possible assignment. > > One minor is consumed for each port of each InfiniBand HCA installed > in the system. I know of real systems that have 10 two-port HCAs > installed, which would require 20 minors. 32 minors may be too few, > since it would not allow for a doubling of already-existing > installations, although perhaps larger systems could be forced to use > dynamic major allocation. > > So depending on how constrained your allocation space is, I would > prefer 64 minors but 32 is probably OK. >
Allright, I begun looking into using the 2.6 specific major/minor allocations. 2.6 allows 20 bit worth of minors per major. I'll let you know once I know more. In the mean time, you can just use some of the local/experimental ones which you probaly already do. Thanks, Torben _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
