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

[James Lentini]

On Tue, 24 May 2005, Sean Hefty wrote:

> 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).

Out of curiosity, why the strange format? Is it an IB spec thing?

> 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
>