Re: [PATCH 2/9] IB: add a proper completion queue abstraction

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+/**
+ * ib_process_direct_cq - process a CQ in caller context
+ * @cq:		CQ to process
+ *
+ * This function is used to process all outstanding CQ entries on a
+ * %IB_POLL_DIRECT CQ.  It does not offload CQ processing to a different
+ * context and does not ask from completion interrupts from the HCA.
+ */
+void ib_process_cq_direct(struct ib_cq *cq)
+{
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cq->poll_ctx != IB_POLL_DIRECT);
+
+	__ib_process_cq(cq, INT_MAX);
+}

I doubt INT_MAX is useful as a budget in any use-case. it can easily
hog the CPU. If the consumer is given access to poll a CQ, it must be
able to provide some way to budget it. Why not expose a budget argument
to the consumer?
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