On 9/23/2011 12:57 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> 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. 

Sure; you have an algorithm that uses subnet timeout v. a configurable
timeout.

> 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.

I don't see how your algorithm can be compliant with just subnet timeout.

-- Hal

> Jason


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