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

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 23 May 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:

>    Roland> I think you may be misunderstanding the suggestion.  The
>    Roland> idea is that the driver takes the input value of
>    Roland> max_inline_data as a hint, and tries to allocate a QP that
>    Roland> supports that value.  However, if the value is too large,
>    Roland> the driver reduces the value down to the largest value
>    Roland> that it can support.
>
>    James> I don't think this is true:
>
> Right, it isn't true yet.  I was trying to explain Michael's
> suggestion for improving the interface.

Ok.

>    James> So if there was an error, the function return without
>    James> updating the user's cap values. Is this a bug?
>
> No.  What should it return?  No QP has been created, so it doesn't
> make sense to return the capacity of the QP.

It's fine. I was thinking you wanted to use the ib_qp_init_attr to 
return valid capability values to the user on failure. Reading back 
through the thread, I don't know how I got that impression.