Commit 7083e42e authored by Shani Michaeli's avatar Shani Michaeli Committed by Roland Dreier
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IB/core: Add "type 2" memory windows support

This patch enhances the IB core support for Memory Windows (MWs).

MWs allow an application to have better/flexible control over remote
access to memory.

Two types of MWs are supported, with the second type having two flavors:

    Type 1  - associated with PD only
    Type 2A - associated with QPN only
    Type 2B - associated with PD and QPN

Applications can allocate a MW once, and then repeatedly bind the MW
to different ranges in MRs that are associated to the same PD. Type 1
windows are bound through a verb, while type 2 windows are bound by
posting a work request.

The 32-bit memory key is composed of a 24-bit index and an 8-bit
key. The key is changed with each bind, thus allowing more control
over the peer's use of the memory key.

The changes introduced are the following:

* add memory window type enum and a corresponding parameter to ib_alloc_mw.
* type 2 memory window bind work request support.
* create a struct that contains the common part of the...
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