Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 07/16] ehca: interrupt handling routines | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | Tue, 09 May 2006 09:23:38 -0700 |
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Heiko> Yes, I agree. It would not be an optimal solution, because Heiko> other upper level protocols (e.g. SDP, SRP, etc.) or Heiko> userspace verbs would not be affected by this Heiko> changes. Nevertheless, how can an improved "scaling" or Heiko> "SMP" version of IPoIB look like. How could it be Heiko> implemented?
The trivial way to do it would be to use the same idea as the current ehca driver: just create a thread for receive CQ events and a thread for send CQ events, and defer CQ polling into those two threads.
Something even better may be possible by specializing to IPoIB of course.
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