From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Alexander Schmidt <alexs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ewg@lists.openfabrics.org,
       linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, raisch@de.ibm.com,
       Hoang-Nam Nguyen <HNGUYEN@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [ewg] Re: [PATCH 2.6.31] ehca: Tolerate dynamic memory operations and huge pages
References: <200906091559.24661.hannes.hering@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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	<20090616090809.34d162fc@BL3D1974.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:10:39 -0700
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	(Alexander Schmidt's message of "Tue, 16 Jun 2009 09:08:09 +0200")
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 > Yeah, the notifier code remains untouched as we still do not allow dynamic
 > memory operations _while_ our module is loaded. The patch allows the driver to
 > cope with DMEM operations that happened before the module was loaded, which
 > might result in a non-contiguous memory layout. When the driver registers
 > its global memory region in the system, the memory layout must be considered.
 > 
 > We chose the term "toleration" instead of "support" to illustrate this.

I see.  So things just silently broke in some cases when the driver was
loaded after operations you didn't tolerate?

Anyway, thanks for the explanation.
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