Re: [PATCH 2.6.30] xprtrdma: The frmr iova_start values are truncated by the nfs rdma client.

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On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 19:13 -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> Trond Myklebust wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 17:25 -0500, Steve Wise wrote:
> >   
> >> Hey Trond,
> >>
> >> Will this bug fix make 2.6.30?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Steve.
> >>     
> >
> > Not in the form it is in now. As I've said earlier, I'm not happy about
> > the sunrpc layer having to circumvent ordinary type checking on
> > non-sunrpc structures.
> >
> > Cheers
> >     Trond
> How is it circumventing?  It's currently incorrectly casting a pointer 
> into a u64.  That seems just broken to me.  Also, its really the sunrpc 
> rdma transport layer.  It deals specifically with rdma.  It _should_ 
> know about rdma interfaces and types.

The fact is that I'm simply not interested enough in rdma to tolerate
hacks. If it isn't done cleanly, in a manner that I can maintain, then
the whole transport layer comes out...

Trond

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