diff options
| author | Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com> | 2014-12-11 17:04:22 +0200 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com> | 2014-12-15 18:19:02 -0800 |
| commit | 832a6b06ab5e13c228fc27e333ad360aa03ace6f (patch) | |
| tree | f47db1bab24137255c54f055b4bddbddff1fb7e4 /README | |
| parent | cc149f751b75211df8c41fcd60bd0006e6143ed6 (diff) | |
IB/mlx5: Add mlx5_ib_update_mtt to update page tables after creation
The new function allows updating the page tables of a memory region
after it was created. This can be used to handle page faults and page
invalidations.
Since mlx5_ib_update_mtt will need to work from within page invalidation,
so it must not block on memory allocation. It employs an atomic memory
allocation mechanism that is used as a fallback when kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) fails.
In order to reuse code from mlx5_ib_populate_pas, the patch splits
this function and add the needed parameters.
Signed-off-by: Haggai Eran <haggaie@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <raindel@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions