On Thu, 28 May 2015, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > My point was exposing raw wrapping counters is a horrible UAPI.
Well this is a kernel bypass API and a lot of raw hardware issues will have to be handled since you do go directly to the device. > > through a complete cycle. But that is the nature of these counters. And > > thats what you see when you look into the kernel timer subsystem for > > example. > > Very little in the kernel is exposed to that wrapping, the timer > subsystem takes care of it. Certainly, userspace never sees it. Right but then we are not at the comfortable sockets API here but at the bare metal level. -- 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
