From: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz-hKgKHo2Ms0FWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 2.6.30] xprtrdma: The frmr iova_start
 values are truncated by	the nfs rdma client.
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:45:26 +0300
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Steve Wise wrote:
> The NFSRDMA transport uses Fast Register Memory Regions.  In this
> particular section of code, the NFSRDMA client is building a fastreg
> work request to bind a page list to a fastreg mr.  You can read about
> this in the IBTA spec on memory management extensions, or in the RDMA Verbs draft.

Hi Steve,

I was aware for the context being fastreg work request. I was thinking
that the spec mandates either dma addr or kva on the iova but from your reply
I assume to be wrong, thanks.

Or.