linux-kernel - Re: RDMA/InfiniBand merge plans for 2.6.30

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Message-ID: <adahc1hvgbl.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:15:58 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	Eli Cohen <eli@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: RDMA/InfiniBand merge plans for 2.6.30

 > There are some patches in the ofed release by Eli and me to support
 > weak ordering on DMA ("ib_core: Use weak ordering for data registered
 > memory"). When they got merged into OFED, I assumed they would find
 > their way into mainline along with most of the other patches in there.
 > 
 > Did they get forgotten about, or did I misunderstand the process?

Oh yeah, forgot about that weak ordering.  I still want to have a think
about that (I don't like having a module parameter for it but maybe
there's not better way)

However in general getting into OFED is pretty unrelated to getting
upstream...

 - R.
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