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SubjectRe: [PATCH 5 of 13] ipath - use proper address translation routine
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    Christoph> Or stop doing the dma mapping in the IB upper level
Christoph> drivers. I told you that we'll get broken hardware
Christoph> that doesn't want dma mapping in the upper level
Christoph> driver, and pathscale created exactly that :)

But see my earlier mail to Arjan about RDMA -- what address can a
protocol (eg SRP initiator) put in a message that the other side will
use to initiate a remote DMA operation? It seems to me it has to be a
bus address, and that means that the protocol has to do the DMA mapping.

- R.
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