[ofa-general] Requesting CQ notifications

[Steve Wise]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 18:58 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  > Is there a differentiation between multiple CQE's being in the CQ
>  > vs. CQE's being arriving into the CQ when using completion
>  > notifications?
>  > 
>  > For example, assume I have the following order of events:
>  > 
>  > 
>  > 	2 CQEs arrive
>  > 
>  > 	select() returns readable for comp. channel
>  > 
>  > 	ibv_get_cq_event() returns event
>  > 
>  > 	ibv_req_notify_cq(cq, 0)
>  > 
>  > 	ibv_poll_cq(cq, 1, &cqe) returns 1
>  > 
>  > 	ibv_ack_cq_events(cq, 1)
>  > 
>  > 
>  > Will the comp. channel receive another event for the second CQE even
>  > if it had arrived before ibv_req_notify_cq() was called?
> 
> This is really an ill-posed question: according to the semantics
> defined by the verbs spec, the presence or absence of the second CQE
> is not defined until you poll the CQ again.
> 
> In practice we can look at what real hardware does, and the answer is
> "it depends."  Some adapters (eg mthca, mlx4) will generate an event
> immediately if ibv_req_notify_cq() is called for a CQ that contains an
> unpolled CQE, while other adapters (eg ipath, ehca) will only generate
> an event when a CQE is added after the cal to ibv_req_notify_cq().
> 

cxgb3 behaves like ipath/ehca.  IE arrival of a new CQE generates the
notification event.


>  - R.
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