Quoting r. Or Gerlitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am not on working on performance optimizations now, the code we wrote > to the GEN1 driver was using the max possible remaps and i'd like to > work here this way as well.
But why make changes if this doesnt gain performance? > >Allocating resources up to a maximum supported by a device is rarely > >optimal. > >Its easy to imagine a device where FMR number of maps is a shared resource, > >so allocating one FMR with max_map_per_fmr will not let you create any more > >of these. > > Why imagine something related to Mellanox proprietary implementation > over which the number of times you remap an FMR does not consume --any-- > further resources on the device other (at least for tavor and arbel, > correct if i am wrong to other devices). Fair enough. -- Michael S. Tsirkin Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
