[openib-general] Re: uverbs comp events

Roland Dreier rolandd at cisco.com
Wed Aug 17 16:51:36 PDT 2005


    Arlin> Hi Roland, I just noticed that when I call
    Arlin> ibv_close_device() it does not wakeup the poll cq_fd[0] in
    Arlin> a separate thread. Can you take a look?

OK, I'll see if there's something wrong.

    Arlin> While we are on the subject. Any chance of getting
    Arlin> something like ibv_generate_cq_event() added to wakeup
    Arlin> events from user space?  Signaling, as a means to wake up
    Arlin> my CQ (and CM or AT for that matter) processing thread,
    Arlin> presents some problems. Unless of course, someone can show
    Arlin> me a way to signal the FD directly from usersspace by
    Arlin> another means.

This doesn't seem useful to me.  Why not just use pipe() and write()
to generate your own FD events?

 - R.



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