[openib-general] Re: Gen2 User verbs usage

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Mon Apr 18 07:57:38 PDT 2005


    Michael> There currently doesnt seem to exist a way for userspace
    Michael> to know when is setting the INLINE flag possible.

I seem to remember some discussion where we said the inline flag was
just a hint for the low-level driver, so it's always possible to set it.

    Michael> It would seem what we need is another attribute passed to
    Michael> create_qp that would specify the max inline buffer size,
    Michael> and probably an hca attribute to give the maximum legal
    Michael> value for this attribute.

Do we care enough about this special feature to do this?  It seems
Mellanox VAPI worked out OK without that.

 - R.



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