IB/mad: Report number of times a mad was retried

To allow ULPs to tune timeout values and capture retry statistics,
report the number of times that a mad send operation was retried.

For RMPP mads, report the total number of times that the any portion
(send window) of the send operation was retried.

Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/rdma/ib_mad.h b/include/rdma/ib_mad.h
index 8ec3799e42e1..7228c056b9e9 100644
--- a/include/rdma/ib_mad.h
+++ b/include/rdma/ib_mad.h
@@ -230,7 +230,9 @@ struct ib_class_port_info
  * @seg_count: The number of RMPP segments allocated for this send.
  * @seg_size: Size of each RMPP segment.
  * @timeout_ms: Time to wait for a response.
- * @retries: Number of times to retry a request for a response.
+ * @retries: Number of times to retry a request for a response.  For MADs
+ *   using RMPP, this applies per window.  On completion, returns the number
+ *   of retries needed to complete the transfer.
  *
  * Users are responsible for initializing the MAD buffer itself, with the
  * exception of any RMPP header.  Additional segment buffer space allocated