[rds-devel] Questions on the RDMA interface
Zach Brown
zach.brown at oracle.com
Mon Nov 26 11:26:55 PST 2007
> - Various RDMA related getsockopt calls pass pointers in a uint64_t,
> such as rdma_id_addr in rds_barrier_args, or key_addr and
> phy_addr in rds_get_mr_args. Why? Is that for 32bit/64bit user
> space/kernel combinations?
Yeah, that's only done to avoid having to translate the pointer.
> - rds_iovec.bytes is a 64bit quantity, but RDMA transfers are limited
> to 2^31 bytes, according to the spec. The kernel should enforce this
> limit, or we should reflect that in the typedef.
I suppose if it were me I'd drop the interface to a u32 and also enforce
the 31 bit (sigh) limit.
- z
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