[openib-general] Re: Re: RFC: e2e credits

[Talpey, Thomas]

At 04:39 PM 3/7/2006, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>Anyway, sine ULPs don't seem to need it, another approach would be an option to
>disable these flow controls globally, and probably add a module option 
>to enable
>them back just in case.  That's much simpler, isn't it?

Thumbs up! If nothing uses them, why hang them around, enabled, just
to cause problems?

As an upper layer implementor, I sure don't want them in the way, nor do
I want to add special code to turn something off I wasn't even aware was
in the provider.

Tom.