Re: [PATCH rdma-core] mlx5: External memory binding for HW resources

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On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 04:55:02PM +0300, Yishai Hadas wrote:
> From: Xueming Li <xuemingl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Add a new DV API mlx5dv_set_context_attr() to enable setting an external
> memory allocator. This API will allow the application to use specific
> decisions about the memory allocation of HW resources (e.g. DV objects).
> Some examples are managing numa pinning per object, managing a
> hugepages resource pool, shared memory regions.
> 
> Also extend mlx5dv_get_qp() to return UAR mapping info. This can allow a
> process to share its doorbell access with secondary process by re-mmap
> the UAR address on the device and make it accessible as a user space
> address.

Why two unrelated changes in one patch?

Everything else looks fine to me

Jason
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