[openib-general] [PATCHv2][RFC] kDAPL: use cm timers instead of own

[Tom Duffy]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:17 -0400, James Lentini wrote:
> Here's the specification's exact description:
> 
>   timeout: Duration of time, in microseconds, that a consumer waits for
>            connection establishment. The value of DAT_TIMEOUT_INFINITE
>            represents no timeout, indefinite wait. Values must be
>            positive.

Let me make sure I got this right: timeout is in µs (10^-6 seconds), not
ms (10^-3 seconds).  If so, I am off by 3 orders of magnitude in my
calculation.  Right?

> My perspective is that we are not implementing this API for a real 
> time operating system and therefore should take a fuzzy view of time.

Trust me, it is going to fuzzy what with the mechanism IB uses to encode
timeouts.

BTW, what do you think would be a good test case to make sure the new
code is working as intended?

-tduffy
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