From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: About a shortcoming of the verbs API Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:27:16 +0300 Message-ID: <4C511F44.9050102@voltaire.com> References: <4C4E90B6.5070002@Voltaire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Bart Van Assche , Linux-RDMA List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > - If we did get an error, there's not much we can do except keep > polling and try to request notification again later -- exactly the > same thing we would do if we got a positive return value. Basically, you're right. My only concern is a case where a hw driver keeps returning error from the notify verb and ipoib isn't aware of that. But as no one returns such error, this can be leaved for now. Or. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html