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Message-ID: <20080214155333.GA1029@sgi.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:53:33 -0600
From:	Robin Holt <holt@....com>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
Cc:	Felix Marti <felix@...lsio.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, steiner@....com,
	Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	izike@...ranet.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, avi@...ranet.com,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, daniel.blueman@...drics.com,
	Robin Holt <holt@....com>, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Demand paging for memory regions

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 09:09:08AM -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
> Note that for T3, this involves suspending _all_ rdma connections that are 
> in the same PD as the MR being remapped.  This is because the driver 
> doesn't know who the application advertised the rkey/stag to.  So without 

Is there a reason the driver can not track these.

> Point being, it will stop probably all connections that an application is 
> using (assuming the application uses a single PD).

It seems like the need to not stop all would be a compelling enough reason
to modify the driver to track which processes have received the rkey/stag.

Thanks,
Robin
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