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authorBart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>2016-09-26 09:09:42 -0700
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>2016-10-07 16:54:38 -0400
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parentIB/mlx4: Fix possible vl/sl field mismatch in LRH header in QP1 packets (diff)
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IB/core: Improve ib_map_mr_sg() documentation
Document that ib_map_mr_sg() is able to map physically discontiguous sg-lists as a single MR. Change IB_MR_TYPE_SG_GAPS_REG into IB_MR_TYPE_SG_GAPS. Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@rimberg.me> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
index d4ef3b1a695a..1c6b2a4f50d4 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/verbs.c
@@ -1811,13 +1811,13 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(ib_set_vf_guid);
*
* Constraints:
* - The first sg element is allowed to have an offset.
- * - Each sg element must be aligned to page_size (or physically
- * contiguous to the previous element). In case an sg element has a
- * non contiguous offset, the mapping prefix will not include it.
+ * - Each sg element must either be aligned to page_size or virtually
+ * contiguous to the previous element. In case an sg element has a
+ * non-contiguous offset, the mapping prefix will not include it.
* - The last sg element is allowed to have length less than page_size.
* - If sg_nents total byte length exceeds the mr max_num_sge * page_size
* then only max_num_sg entries will be mapped.
- * - If the MR was allocated with type IB_MR_TYPE_SG_GAPS_REG, non of these
+ * - If the MR was allocated with type IB_MR_TYPE_SG_GAPS, none of these
* constraints holds and the page_size argument is ignored.
*
* Returns the number of sg elements that were mapped to the memory region.