netdev - Re: [PATCH v1 net] net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings

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Date:	Tue, 03 May 2016 12:00:32 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gerlitz.or@...il.com
Cc:	hagaya@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, okaya@...eaurora.org,
	timur@...eaurora.org, eranbe@...lanox.com, yishaih@...lanox.com,
	talal@...lanox.com, saeedm@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 net] net/mlx4: Avoid wrong virtual mappings

From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 10:45:43 +0300

> The patch changes the driver to do single allocation for potentially
> very large HW WQE descriptor buffers such as those used by the RDMA
> (mlx5_ib) driver.

I know exactly what this patch does and how, but thanks for trying to
teach me what it does anyways.