Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-25 Thread Murali Vilayannur
hi Walt, Sorry for not explaining clearly. After the PVFS_isys_*() call completes immediately, we need to copy the results from the system responses to the kernel by writing it to the device file. The ->was_handled_inline member variable is actually set in write_inlined_device_response() which also

[Pvfs2-developers] BMI questions

2006-10-25 Thread Scott Atchley
Hi all, A few quick questions: 1. Is there an upper bound on how many transfer operations between a pair of hosts at any one time (i.e. between a client and host)? 2. If there is a limit in the above and it is greater than 1, is that value the same for small (unexpected and some expected)

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-25 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
Uh, what? what do you mean by "copy the results to the downcall"? Your post indicated that if the was_handled_inline member was set that was all that was needed. Is something else needed? I don't know what a downcall is or how to copy results there. Walt Murali Vilayannur wrote: Hi Walt,

Re: [Pvfs2-developers] a little help?

2006-10-25 Thread Walter B. Ligon III
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Walt, apparently, this code never considered that a posted op might complete, and so never included a specific case for it. There is a now a specific return code for that, but I don't know where to put it since I don't really understand the "reposting" thing. A