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From: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: randy.dunlap@oracle.com, linux-next@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.30] RDMA/cxgb3: Remove modulo math.
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:32:47 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <499319CF.6050204@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adatz70972e.fsf@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Note that wr->sg_list[i].addr was being cast to a u32.  That was wrong.
>
> 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.

> Anyway please send me this change as a separate patch with a changelog
> explaining that you're avoiding the div etc.... I don't want to roll it
> in with the other unrelated fix (which changes code that was never
> upstream anyway).
>   

will do. 

So you are handling the offset patch that will make it u64 and remove 
the mod usage, correct?

I will post a new patch with just this send change.

Steve.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 18:44 [ofa-general] [PATCH 2.6.30] RDMA/cxgb3: Remove modulo math Steve Wise
2009-02-10 19:04 ` [ofa-general] " Randy Dunlap
2009-02-10 19:10   ` Steve Wise
2009-02-10 19:12     ` Randy Dunlap
2009-02-11  0:38 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  1:03   ` Steve Wise
     [not found]   ` <499223F8.1010204@opengridcomputing.com>
2009-02-11  1:07     ` David Miller
2009-02-11  1:18       ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  1:23         ` David Miller
2009-02-11  7:20           ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11  8:00             ` David Miller
2009-02-11 15:44   ` Steve Wise
2009-02-11 18:12     ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11 18:32       ` Steve Wise [this message]
2009-02-11 18:36         ` Roland Dreier
2009-02-11 18:44           ` Steve Wise

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