[ofa-general] Re: Re: Re: Is ibv_get_async_event() a blocking call ?

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Tue Mar 20 02:58:00 PDT 2007


> Quoting Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz at voltaire.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: Re: Re: Is ibv_get_async_event() a blocking call ?
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >upon a completion event, if a completion event for the same
> >CQ is outstanding, we can discard the new one as it does not
> >add new information.
> 
> I think you have replaced completion events with async events and event 
> channel (queue) with completion queue. There is no issue with CQ getting 
> bigger and bigger etc.

I'm sorry I could not parse this. We are worried about event channels
taking up to much memory. What I am pointing out is that we never need
to have two events for the same CQ in the same channel.

-- 
MST



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