[openib-general] [PATCH] for review to timeout send MADs

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 10:19, Roland Dreier wrote:
> I think it's OK to have a single workqueue for the whole MAD layer;
> it's probably
> not scalable to systems with a huge number of HCAs, 

Any idea on where the cutoff for huge is or is this likely to be a
matter of experience ? Is it at least 2 ? What about 4 ?

Just wondering...

-- Hal

> but the right fix for that
> is more likely to be moving to softirq/timer context anyway.