From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] IB: provide better access flags for fast registrations Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:49:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20151123154917.GA12906@lst.de> References: <1448214409-7729-1-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> <1448214409-7729-12-git-send-email-hch@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Chuck Lever Cc: Christoph Hellwig , dledford-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 10:09:05AM -0500, Chuck Lever wrote: > Out of curiosity, why are you keeping the IB_ACCESS flags? We'll still need them for all kinds of other use cases (ib_get_dma_mr, userspace MRs, qp_access_flags). > It would be more efficient for providers to convert the > scope information directly into native permissions. For the FR mapping path I'd expect the maintained drivers to eventually do a direct translation. But I'd much rather let the maintainers implement that instead of doing it in a global search and replace. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html