[openib-general] Re: userspace event reporting

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Jul 12 12:53:12 PDT 2005


Quoting r. Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: userspace event reporting
> 
> This fell out of the uCM connection ID discussion...
> 
> There's an issue reporting events to userspace clients for an object
> that a user may have destroyed.  The problem exists with user verbs,
> but is much more likely to be seen by a userspace CM client.  To avoid
> reporting events for a destroyed object, I think that something
> similar to the following could be used from userspace:

Sean, what do you mean when you say "object"?
For example, cq?

I think the proper solution is to record the event in the object itself.
For example, on cq event set bit "event received".
Then after object goes away events go away without flags, states and
ugliness.

-- 
MST



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