Re: RDMA/InfiniBand merge plans for 2.6.30

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Wed Mar 25 2009 - 10:16:20 EST


> 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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