[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] RE: man pages for the rdma-cm

[Sean Hefty]

> Here are a few comments.  Consider them for inclusion, but what you've
> done so far is a great start.

Thanks for the feedback.  I'll try to update this before RC3 freezes.

> - rdma_disconnect - for iWARP connections, this initiates a RDMAC Verbs
> "normal close".  If the connection was properly quiesced by the
> application, then the QP will end up back in IDLE, but if the connection
> was not quiesced, then the connection will be terminated and the QP will
> end up in ERROR.  Dunno if we want to describe this in detail?

Are all work requests flushed in both cases?  I don't know if we need to go into 
details about which state the QP ends up in, unless the behavior differences are 
visible to the user.

> - Also, it might be nice to have some sort of overview man page that
> maps the exected event flows for connection setup and teardown.  Maybe
> 'man rdmacm' gets you some overview?

I agree that this would be nice.  Is there a standard way of doing this?

- Sean