[openib-general] Re: libibverbs and max inline data

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:

>    James> Once there is a way to programmatically determine the
>    James> max_inline_data value, your proposal would be
>    James> feasible. Even if it were possible, I still believe that
>    James> the driver should validate this value.
>
> I think you may be misunderstanding the suggestion.  The idea is that
> the driver takes the input value of max_inline_data as a hint, and
> tries to allocate a QP that supports that value.  However, if the
> value is too large, the driver reduces the value down to the largest
> value that it can support.  In any case, the true amount of inline
> data supported is returned to the consumer in the qp_cap structure.

Is ib_create_qp supposed to fail if an ib_qp_cap value is invalid?