Re: [PATCH][RFC][0/4] InfiniBand userspace verbs implementation

From: Timur Tabi
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 16:54:24 EST


Greg KH wrote:

You don't "support" i386 or ia64 or x86-64 or ppc64 systems? What
hardware do you support?

I've never seen or heard of any x86-32 or x86-64 system that supports hot-swap RAM. Our hardware does not support PPC, and our software doesn't support ia-64.

> And what about the fact that you are aiming to
get this code into mainline, right? If not, why are you asking here?
:)

Well, our primary concern is getting our stuff to work. Since get_user_pages() doesn't work, but mlock() does, that's what we use. I don't know how to fix get_user_pages(), and I don't have the time right now to figure it out. I know that technically mlock() is not the right way to do it, and so we're not going to be submitting our code for the mainline until get_user_pages() works and our code uses it instead of mlock().

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