1. 18 Jun, 2007 1 commit
    • Roland Dreier's avatar
      IB/mlx4: Handle new FW requirement for send request prefetching · 0e6e7416
      Roland Dreier authored
      New ConnectX firmware introduces FW command interface revision 2,
      which requires that for each QP, a chunk of send queue entries (the
      "headroom") is kept marked as invalid, so that the HCA doesn't get
      confused if it prefetches entries that haven't been posted yet.  Add
      code to the driver to do this, and also update the user ABI so that
      userspace can request that the prefetcher be turned off for userspace
      QPs (we just leave the prefetcher on for all kernel QPs).
      
      Unfortunately, marking send queue entries this way is confuses older
      firmware, so we change the driver to allow only FW command interface
      revisions 2.  This means that users will have to update their firmware
      to work with the new driver, but the firmware is changing quickly and
      the old firmware has lots of other bugs anyway, so this shouldn't be too
      big a deal.
      
      Based on a patch from Jack Morgenstein <jackm@dev.mellanox.co.il>.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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