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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user CQ support
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:10:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050628171046.6fa7de0d.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2005628163.jWivrrVepuPgy40z@cisco.com>

Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Add support for userspace completion queues (CQs) to mthca.
> 

There are more interesting things happening here ;)

> @@ -177,6 +177,7 @@ struct mthca_cq {
>  	int                    cqn;
>  	u32                    cons_index;
>  	int                    is_direct;
> +	int                    is_kernel;
>  
>  	/* Next fields are Arbel only */
>  	int                    set_ci_db_index;

I assume we have one body of code which is capable of handling data
structures in either kenrel memory of user memory?  (guess).

If so, that's a fairly sensitive thing to be doing.  Tell us more, please.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-06-29  0:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-28 23:03 [PATCH 00/16] Add InfiniBand userspace verbs (direct userspace access) Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03 ` [PATCH 01/16] IB uverbs: core API extensions Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03   ` [PATCH 02/16] IB uverbs: update kernel midlayer for new API Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03     ` [PATCH 03/16] IB uverbs: update mthca " Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03       ` [PATCH 04/16] IB uverbs: add user verbs ABI header Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03         ` [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03           ` [PATCH 06/16] IB uverbs: memory pinning implementation Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03             ` [PATCH 07/16] IB uverbs: hook up Kconfig/Makefile Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03               ` [PATCH 08/16] IB uverbs: add mthca ABI header Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                 ` [PATCH 09/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user doorbell record support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                   ` [PATCH 10/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user context support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                     ` [PATCH 11/16] IB uverbs: add mthca mmap support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                       ` [PATCH 12/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user PD support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                         ` [PATCH 13/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user MR support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                           ` [PATCH 14/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user CQ support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                             ` [PATCH 15/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user QP support Roland Dreier
2005-06-28 23:03                               ` [PATCH 16/16] IB uverbs: add documentation file Roland Dreier
2005-06-29  0:10                             ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-06-29 16:06                               ` [PATCH 14/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user CQ support Roland Dreier
2005-06-29  0:07                         ` [PATCH 12/16] IB uverbs: add mthca user PD support Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06                           ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29  0:05                       ` [PATCH 11/16] IB uverbs: add mthca mmap support Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06                         ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-05 19:20                         ` Roland Dreier
2005-07-05 20:53                           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2005-07-05 22:07                             ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29  0:02             ` [PATCH 06/16] IB uverbs: memory pinning implementation Andrew Morton
2005-06-29 16:06               ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29  0:27           ` [PATCH 05/16] IB uverbs: core implementation Greg KH
2005-06-29  1:38             ` [openib-general] " Tom Duffy
2005-06-29  4:13             ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-06-29 16:12               ` Greg KH
2005-06-29 16:32                 ` Troy Benjegerdes
2005-06-29 16:06             ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 17:01             ` Roland Dreier
2005-06-29 18:03               ` Greg KH
2005-06-30  3:13             ` [openib-general] " Ronald G. Minnich

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