[openib-general] [PATCH] request/response matching in MAD code

Fri Oct 1 17:11:28 PDT 2004

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 16:54:21 -0700
Roland Dreier <roland at topspin.com> wrote:

>     Sean> I have part of this implemented now.  Does anyone have any
>     Sean> opinions on how to manage the thread(s) for processing
>     Sean> timeouts?
> 
> Why do we need a thread to handle timeouts?  Can't we do all the
> processing from the timer callback?

Handling the processing from the timer callback is an option.  I wasn't sure that we wanted to invoke user callbacks from a timer callback, however.

- Sean