[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ehca: Serialize HCA-related hCalls on POWER5

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed Dec 12 23:14:25 EST 2007


Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com> wrote on 10.12.2007 22:47:37:

>> It's an optional device feature, so this should be OK
>> (although the iSER driver currently seems to depend on a device
>> supporting FMRs, which is probably going to be a problem with iWARP
>> support in the future anyway).

> I don't feel very well with removing code from the driver that iSER seems 
> to depend on. Are there plans to fix this in iSER?

What is the fix you suggest, to add a device query that tells you for 
which verbs the documentation does not apply? or enhance the code of the 
  map_phys_fmr verb within the ehca driver to return error if called 
from non-sleepable context?

Or.




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