> On 5/3/05, David Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > as our recent IOPROC patch on lkml shows, it's not that invasive. There > > are just 24 hooks added to the Linux VM code paths - which we have been > > able to > > maintain outside the mainline tree for many years now. > > As these hooks only need to synchronise the Elan's MMU state with that of > > the > > CPU, the device drivers calls don't change the Linux MM behaviour. > > > > We believe the IOPROC patch is generic and powerful and would allow other > > RDMA NICs to solve the page registration problems in a different manner. > > For NICs which require page registration, new VM hooks can be used to avoid > > pages being unloaded whilst DMAs are active. Our latest cut of the IOPROC > > patch > > has such a hook. > >
david, I just saw this. I'll need to look at that patch, it sounds pretty neat. Thanks ron _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
