[rds-devel] Re: one_use.tgz (rds-stress.c + one_use.patch for rds driver ).
Olaf Kirch
olaf.kirch at oracle.com
Wed Jan 9 08:36:40 PST 2008
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 17:00, Richard Frank wrote:
> Olaf Kirch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > looking at ib_verbs.h and the spec - the RDMA R_Key is a 32bit
> > quantity. For some reason RDS passes it around in 64bit variables,
> > which makes for lots of ugly (long long) casts and %Lx's in printks.
> > Why did we make this a u64?
> >
> > Olaf
> >
> Using 32bits for the key seems safe - not sure why we made this u64.
Okay. So if we agree on this change, we should make it RSN,
possibly before OFED 1.3 goes golden.
Olaf
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