[ofa-general] performance to call ibv_poll_cq() vs. call select() on completion channel
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Sep 2 16:08:39 PDT 2009
> I understand that ops.poll_cq is actually ibv_cmd_poll_cq(), right ?
No, not for most devices. Look at libmthca, etc to see what the poll_cq
method is set to.
> Do you mean during ibv_poll_cq() call, there is no system call involved ?
Right, for most devices poll_cq can be done just by looking at memory in
userspace without involving the kernel at all.
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