[openib-general][PATCH][kdapl]: evd upcall policy implementation

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Mon Aug 15 07:54:31 PDT 2005



On Sat, 13 Aug 2005, Guy German wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Just a small add to my reply about:
> 
> > The approach taken in the current implementation is to always enable
> > the IB upcalls and determine in the DAPL provider if the consumer's
> > upcall should be invoked.
> 
> My earlier reply was referring to part that the DAPL provider would
> determine if the consumer's upcall should be invoked, instead of the
> consumer deciding it. 
> As to always enabling the IB upcalls - that can be done. But if we do 
> it we should add the DTO events to the pending events list, which 
> brings us to the size of this list, that is in the current implementation
> problematic.

I like your approach of only enabling the CQ upcall when the consumer 
enables DAPL upcalls. I think we should continue in that direction. 



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