[openib-general] Re: RFC: e2e credits

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 11:13, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Hal Rosenstock <halr at voltaire.com>:
> > > >Sean, just to wrap it up, the API at the verbs layer will look like the
> > > >below, and then ULPs just put the value they want in the CM and CM will
> > > >pass it in to low level.
> > > 
> > > I'm fine with this, but I do think that it's a minor spec
> > > violation/enhancement, so I'd like to get agreement with Hal, Roland, and
> > > other HCA vendors about this change.
> > 
> > I too think this is a (minor) spec change. I recommended checking with
> > the CM authors on it.
> 
> Why are you saying its a spec change? Because now the same HCA might return
> different values at different times?

I think that's a creative interpretation of what the spec says (or
perhaps doesn't say) but that's just my $0.02 worth.

-- Hal