man: Clarify parameter behavior for 0 byte operations#11887
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Clarify parameter behavior for 0 byte send/tagged/rma operations. The parameters that have been clarified are buf, iov, desc. Also clarify the parameters msg_iov, desc, and iov_count for the *msg api's. Signed-off-by: Seth Zegelstein <szegel@amazon.com>
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There is a chance that not all providers currently adhere to this new requirement. How do we want to deal with that. I would also like to hold off merging until we get an AWS approver. |
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| : Vectored data buffer. For 0-byte operations, iov may be NULL. |
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Is a count of 1 and iov[0].buf = NULL and iov[0].len = 0 legal?
Why NULL and not just "ignored"?
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Note: This doc update outlines new behavior that not all providers might currently support (including efa-direct).
Clarify parameter behavior for 0 byte send/tagged/rma operations. The parameters that have been clarified are buf, iov, desc. Also clarify the parameters msg_iov, desc, and iov_count for the *msg api's.