[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] static rate encoding change (kernel)

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Mar 2 11:23:57 PST 2006


Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] static rate encoding change (kernel)
> 
>     Michael> OK.  So lets call it ib_link_rate and rename
>     Michael> ib_ah_attr.static_rate to ib_ah_attr.max_rate.
> 
> Seems reasonable.  The verbs spec (chapter 11) talks about "maximum
> static rate" so "max_rate" is probably a better abbreviation than
> "static_rate".

OK.
Sean, if that's OK with you, too, next week we'll post a fully tested patch
series including low-level driver support for a selection of static rate values.

-- 
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies



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