Re: [PATCH v4 01/13] Linux RDMA Core Changes

[Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 07:07 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > If you think I should not add the udata parameter to the req_notify_cq()
> > provider verb, then I can rework the chelsio driver:
> > 
> > 1) at cq creation time, pass the virtual address of the u32 used by the
> > library to track the current cq index.  That way the chelsio kernel
> > driver can save the address in its kernel cq context for later use.
> > 
> > 2) change chelsio's req_notify_cq() to copy in the current cq index
> > value directly for rearming.
> > 
> > This puts all the burden on the chelsio driver, which is apparently the
> > only one that needs this functionality.  
> 
> Good thinking, I haven't thought of this approach.
> 
> This way there won't be any API/core changes and no changes to
> other low level drivers, correct? And for chelsio, there's no overhead
> as compared to code you posted.
> 
> Sounds good.
> 

I still want to hear from Roland on this before I go to the effort of
reworking all this...


Steve.