[openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC] kDAPL: use linux native timers instead of own

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue May 24 12:05:51 PDT 2005


James Lentini wrote:
> Sean, what unit of time are the timeouts expected in?
> 
> Tom, are you willing to rework the patch to use the CM timeout values?

The timeouts are in the intuitive format of 4.096 us x 2 ^ (timeout).

Basically, the CM takes the timeout values return in a path record.  The CM 
converts the provided value into ms using something similar to:

1 << (timeout - 8)

- Sean



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