rvt_timeout_to_jiffies(9)

✨ rvt_timeout_to_jiffies ✨

okay so bestie, we're in the Kernel API Manual, section 9 — yes the big-kid kernel one — and today's main character is rvt_timeout_to_jiffies, which is literally just here to do one (1) job and do it slayfully 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unsigned long rvt_timeout_to_jiffies (u8 timeout );

like that's it. that's the whole vibe. a u8 goes in, an unsigned long comes out, no cap 🫶

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• timeout — your timeout input, and it lives in the range 0 - 31. that's the whole window, bestie, no wandering outside it 🙈 (the manpage says 0 - 31 and we respect the manpage).

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

it returns a timeout value in jiffies. that's the entire plot. it converts a ULP timeout input into the jiffies unit and hands it back to you, iconic behavior, zero drama ⭐

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

okay this is the part where the manpage just goes absolutely feral and lists the entire friend group, so here goes — deep breath — 🧚

• the Kernel file ./include/rdma/rdmavt_qp.h
• struct rvt_ud_wr(9)
• struct rvt_krwq(9)
• rvt_get_swqe_ah_attr(9)
• rvt_get_swqe_remote_qpn(9)
• rvt_get_swqe_remote_qkey(9)
• rvt_get_swqe_pkey_index(9)
• rvt_get_rq_count(9)
• struct rvt_operation_params(9)
• rvt_is_user_qp(9)
• rvt_get_qp(9)
• rvt_put_qp(9)
• rvt_put_swqe(9)
• rvt_qp_wqe_reserve(9)
• rvt_qp_wqe_unreserve(9)
• rvt_div_round_up_mtu(9)
• rvt_div_mtu(9)
• rvt_lookup_qpn(9)
• rvt_mod_retry_timer_ext(9)
• rvt_put_qp_swqe(9)
• rvt_qp_swqe_incr(9)
• rvt_recv_cq(9)
• rvt_send_cq(9)
• rvt_qp_complete_swqe(9)
• struct rvt_qp_iter(9)
• ib_cq_tail(9)
• ib_cq_head(9)
• rvt_free_rq(9)
• rvt_to_iport(9)
• rvt_rc_credit_avail(9)

like… that's a whole group chat, and honestly? every single one of them ate 🔥 iykyk.

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lowkey reminder: this page lives in the ./include/rdma source, dated October 2026, and its version tag is rvt_timeout_to_jiffies(9). periodt. 💜

hope that made sense bestie, go convert some timeout inputs, you got this 👑