> Quoting Tziporet Koren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH] IB/mlx4 mlx4_ib: commands timeout > > Eli Cohen wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:04 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > >>How likely is this to help in practice? > >> > >> > >Like I said, when the system is very busy. In this case the command may > >actually complete very soon but wait_for_completion_timeout() will > >nevertheless return zero since the task did not get CPU time before the > >specified timeout expired. In this case we would like to check if done > >is signaled and thus not fail the command. > > > This is not a theoretical issue - we actually saw this problem here with > some tests.
I wonder whether this applicable to mthca as well then. -- MST _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
