From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH][6/12][RFC/v1] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 07:37:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52oehpevys.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041122153456.GA4905@infradead.org> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:34:56 +0000")
Christoph> That just means avoidable interface changes sooner or
Christoph> later. The dma_ interfaces also have the added benefit
Christoph> of allowing better control of the type of consistant
Christoph> allocation interface.
OK, I have no problem making this change.
Christoph> Note that pathscale already has direct to HT infiniband
Christoph> components, but it's not sure whether they'll ever be
Christoph> supported by the OpenIB codebase.
HT actually looks like PCI to software... however I do see advantages
to using the dma_* stuff for supporting the pathscale hardware, if
they every open up their specs.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-22 15:37 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <200411181046.6Dz1IPtDKfpgSXN9@topspin.com>
2004-11-18 18:46 ` [PATCH][6/12][RFC/v1] Add IPoIB (IP-over-InfiniBand) driver Roland Dreier
2004-11-18 18:48 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-18 20:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-18 20:07 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:14 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 15:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 15:37 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2004-11-22 18:55 ` Roland Dreier
2004-11-22 20:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-22 20:16 ` Roland Dreier
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