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.

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