Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.30] RDMA/cxgb3: Remove modulo math.

[Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>]

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > > Is it possible for the page to be bigger than 4GB?  If so then yes you
>  > > might be chopping off high-order bits or something.
>
>  > Yes it is possible.
>  > 
>  > A MR can be created with an iov_base of say 0xffffffff00000000.
>  > 
>  > Then any sge.addr entries would be the iob_base + any offset.
>
> But the code we're talking about is:
>
> 		/* to in the WQE == the offset into the page */
> 		wqe->recv.sgl[i].to = cpu_to_be64(((u32) wr->sg_list[i].addr) %
> 				(1UL << (12 + page_size[i])));
>
> so it seems the top address bits don't matter unless page_size[i] is at
> least 20 -- in which case using 1UL to shift overflows on 32 bits anyway...
>
>   

Yes yes...you're right.   This code is really just saving the offset in 
a page.

I'll send a new patch.