On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 02:30:27PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:25:05PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 03:43:05AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 09:30:28AM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > 1. IBTA spec doesn't talk at all about the size of TransactionID, more > > > > on that in section "13.4.6.4 TRANSACTION ID USAGE", the specification > > > > says: "The contents of the TransactionID (TID) field are implementation- > > > > dependent. So let's don't call it mlx4 bug. > > > > > > I was loosely paraphrasing the original bug report; suggested rewording > > > of the comments gratefully accepted. > > > > Just replace "mlx4 bug" with something like "to comply with mlx4 > > implementation". > > Well, it is a bug. Blindly replacing the upper 8 bits of the TID in a > driver without accommodation from the core is totally, bonkers wrong. I provided cite from spec that says that TID can be whatever you want as long as you success to do it unique. > > The original concept was that the 1<<24 limit would come from the > driver and only mlx4 would have less than 1<<32, because only mlx4 > does this thing.. > > Thanks Matt, > Jason > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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