[openib-general] [PATCH] user_mad: In send_handler, only queue_packet on timeout if not response

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Tue Jun 28 13:23:08 PDT 2005


Hal Rosenstock wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 15:43, Roland Dreier wrote:
> 
>>    Hal> Why does user space need to see all the timeouts ? I thought
>>    Hal> it was only request timeouts which were needed to be
>>    Hal> seen. The semantics for RMPP timeouts appear to be different.
>>
>>Well, can the MAD core even generate timeouts for trap repress or
>>response messages?
> 
> 
> Yes (At least if the send was RMPP'd). That's what started this thread.
> Not sure about normal MAD send of those. Sean ?

A non-RMPP response or trap repress wouldn't receive a timeout, since they 
are not acknowledged in any way.

- Sean



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