[ofa-general] Re: Incorrect max_sge reported in mthca device query

[Pete Wyckoff]

tom at opengridcomputing.com wrote on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:45 -0500:
> The challenge with the current query/request method is that as we've
> discussed the advertised max may not work. What makes the adjust/retry
> unworkable is that you don't know which of the advertised maxes caused
> the request to fail. So when you retry, which qp_attr do you adjust? The
> send sge? The recv sge? The qp depth?

As an aside, we discussed this topic in June 2006.  See the thread

http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2006-June/thread.html#23417

for some insightful comments from MST and Tom Talpey.  No conclusion
was reached regarding the ideal form of the API.

		-- Pete