[openib-general] Re: A Couple of IPoIB related issues

[Roland Dreier]

    Hal> A "heavy ping" is twenty concurrent flood pings.  During
    Hal> these warnings the ipoib interface does seem to work.

>From 20 separate sources?  I don't have that big a test network, but I
can try to reproduce it.

    Hal> Also, is there missing code on handling ipoib timeouts ?

We might want to add something to handle the hardware getting wedged,
but I'm not sure what.

This case seems to be that the system is so busy handling receives
that it doesn't get a chance to handle transmits.  Maybe I need to
dust off my NAPI patch after all.

 - R.