Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements
From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Sean Hefty <mshefty@ichips.intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
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       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:53:43 -0800
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On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:31 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Ok this is one piece of the puzzle.  At your lowest level your hardware
> does not have QP's but it does have something similar to isolate a userspace
> process correct?

Right.  We implement almost none of the IB protocols in hardware.

	<b

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