Re: [PATCH V1 for-next 2/2] IB/mlx4_ib: Disassociate support

Or Gerlitz
2014-11-18T14:42:43Z

On 11/18/2014 2:11 PM, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> Implements the IB core disassociate_ucontext API. The driver detaches the HW
> resources for a given user context to prevent a dependency between application
> termination and device disconnecting. This is done by managing the VMAs that
> were mapped to the HW bars such as door bell and blueflame. When need to detach
> remap them to an arbitrary kernel page returned by the zap API.
>
>

Guys,

Can we somehow make this patch generic (e.g land in the IB core) such
that it can apply also for mlx5 (and other HW drivers...) basically, the
HW driver should tell the IB core which pages to zap and we should be
OK, isn't that?

Or.