netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/13] cxgb3 - Expose HW memory page info

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Message-ID: <46C23A73.4090907@chelsio.com>
Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 16:27:47 -0700
From:	Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	swise@...ngridcomputing.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/13] cxgb3 - Expose HW memory page info

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Divy Le Ray wrote:
>> From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
>>
>> Let the RDMA driver get HW page info to work around HW issues.
>> Assign explicit enum values.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
>
> "HW issues" -- you need to go into far more detail, when adding a new 
> interface.  what hw issues?  why was this the best/only solution?
>
>

A HW issue requires limiting the receive window size to 23 pages of 
internal memory.
These pages can be configured to different sizes, thus the RDMA driver 
needs to know the
page size to enforce the upper limit.

Divy
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