[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 1 of 2] static rate encoding change (kernel)

[Jack Morgenstein]

On Thursday 02 March 2006 21:26, Roland Dreier wrote:
>     Hal> Is it a link rate or a path rate ? That should determine its name.
>
> Good point.  It really could be either, although the first use would
> be as a path rate.  Maybe enum ib_rate is really the best name.
>
>  - R.
Its really both.  When obtaining the PathRecord response value, it is a path 
rate.  When using it for an address handle, it is a link rate.

Good name! it avoids getting entangled in this issue.  After all, even as a 
path rate it reflects the link rate of the slowest link in the path.

- Jack