The new fast registration verb ib_map_mr_sg receives a scatterlist
and converts it to a page list under the verbs API thus hiding
the specific HW mapping details away from the consumer.
The provider drivers are provided with a generic helper ib_sg_to_pages
that converts a scatterlist into a vector of page addresses. The
drivers can still perform any HW specific page address setting
by passing a set_page function pointer which will be invoked for
each page address. This allows drivers to avoid keeping a shadow
page vectors and convert them to HW specific translations by doing
extra copies.
This API will allow ULPs to remove the duplicated code of constructing
a page vector from a given sg list.
The send work request ib_reg_wr also shrinks as it will contain only
mr, key and access flags in addition.
Signed-off-by: Sagi Grimberg <sagig@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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