From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760370AbZCYOQT (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750808AbZCYOQD (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:03 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-1.cisco.com ([171.71.176.70]:40694 "EHLO sj-iport-1.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750771AbZCYOQB (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:01 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,419,1233532800"; d="scan'208";a="161379796" From: Roland Dreier To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org, Eli Cohen Subject: Re: RDMA/InfiniBand merge plans for 2.6.30 References: <200903251358.06128.arnd@arndb.de> X-Message-Flag: Warning: May contain useful information Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:15:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: <200903251358.06128.arnd@arndb.de> (Arnd Bergmann's message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:58:05 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Mar 2009 14:15:59.0196 (UTC) FILETIME=[3867E1C0:01C9AD54] Authentication-Results: sj-dkim-2; header.From=rdreier@cisco.com; dkim=pass ( sig from cisco.com/sjdkim2002 verified; ); Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > There are some patches in the ofed release by Eli and me to support > weak ordering on DMA ("ib_core: Use weak ordering for data registered > memory"). When they got merged into OFED, I assumed they would find > their way into mainline along with most of the other patches in there. > > Did they get forgotten about, or did I misunderstand the process? Oh yeah, forgot about that weak ordering. I still want to have a think about that (I don't like having a module parameter for it but maybe there's not better way) However in general getting into OFED is pretty unrelated to getting upstream... - R.