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From: Tejun Heo <tj-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv12 0/3] rdmacg: IB/core: rdma controller support
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:05:36 -0400
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Hello, Parav.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 01:24:42AM +0530, Parav Pandit wrote:
> userland can get the max numbers using other framework which is used
> by control & data plane available in C library form or in form of
> system tools.
> I was preferring to get and set through same interface because,
> It simplifies user land software which is often not written in C so
> its likely that it needs to rely on system tools and parse the
> content, iterate through devices etc.
> Getting these info through rdma.max just makes it simple. There will
> be logic built to read/write rdma.max in userland anyway, which can be
> leveraged for percentage calculation instead of doing it from two
> places.

Yeah, I get that this can be convenient in this case but it isn't a
generic approach.  I'd much prefer keeping it in line with other
resources.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun