Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:12:36 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation |
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On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 05:02:36PM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote: > The idea is that applications manage the lifetime of pinned memory > regions. They can do things like post multiple I/O operations without > any page-walking overhead, or pass a buffer descriptor to a remote > host who will send data at some indeterminate time in the future. In > addition, InfiniBand has the notion of atomic operations, so a cluster > application may be using some memory region to implement a global lock. > > This might not be the most kernel-friendly design but it is pretty > deeply ingrained in the design of RDMA transports like InfiniBand and > iWARP (RDMA over IP).
Actuallky, no it isn't. All these transports would work just fine with the mmap a character device to hand out memory from the kernel approach I told you to use multiple times and Andrew mentioned in this thread aswell. What doesn't work with that design are the braindead designed by comittee APIs in the RDMA world - but I don't think we should care about them too much.
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