Re: [4/4] mthca: allow setting "dmabarrier" on user-allocated memory

From: akepner
Date: Tue Oct 02 2007 - 21:03:37 EST


On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:50:00PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:

> Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, but this patch should really be
> two (or more) patches: one to add dmabarrier support to the core user
> memory stuff in drivers/infiniband, and a second one to add support to
> mthca (and more patches to add support to mlx4, cxgb3, etc, etc).

Makes sense.

>
> > + * @dmabarrier: set "dmabarrier" attribute on this memory, if necessary
>
> Nit: just delete the "if necessary" since I don't think it makes
> things clearer (and actually doesn't make much sense in this context)
>

OK.

> Other than that this look fine to me, and I'm ready to merge it once
> the necessary core DMA stuff is settled.
>

Great. A new version of the patchset is on the way.

--
Arthur

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