On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 08:57:12AM -0400, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > > Technically umad already needs to use verbs on Linux because that is > > the only way to get the subnet timeout value that is needed to compute > > the MAD RPC timeout. Currently umad ignores this part of IBA ... > > Determining the MAD timeout is more complicated than this. Subnet > timeout is insufficient (so you would need more than just this from > verbs - things that would not be part of verbs) if this mechanism were > to be made compliant rather than a configurable timeout as it is now.
I didn't have any problem with this in python-rdma. The only wonky bit was that verbs was needed for subnet timeout because it isn't in sysfs. Everything else went according to the spec. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
