[openib-general] Re: [PATCH][RFC] kDAPL: use linux native timers instead of own

[Sean Hefty]

James Lentini wrote:
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> On Tue, 24 May 2005, Sean Hefty wrote:
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>> James Lentini wrote:
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>>> Sean, what unit of time are the timeouts expected in?
>>>
>>> Tom, are you willing to rework the patch to use the CM timeout values?
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>> The timeouts are in the intuitive format of 4.096 us x 2 ^ (timeout).
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> 
> Out of curiosity, why the strange format? Is it an IB spec thing?

These are the timeouts specified in the IB spec.  The CM is anticipating 
that a client will have obtained a path record from the SM, which will have 
the timeouts in this format.

- Sean