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Subject: Re: Kernel fast memory registration API proposal [RFC]
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:40:49 +0300
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>> I can drop it, unless anyone can think of a use-case where a ULP would
>> want to register a region with a different offset from sg[0]->offset
>> and/or ends before the sum(sg->length).
>
> What if the sg list has to be chunked up due to the device's FRWR pbl depth limits?  Or is that handled underneath rdma_reg_sg()?
>

Should be handled underneath...
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