[openib-general] Re: RFC: cma: need rdma_unbind

Tom Tucker tom at opengridcomputing.com
Tue Apr 25 12:45:01 PDT 2006


On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 09:41 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Tom Tucker wrote:
> > FYI, an application calling shutdown() does not release the port
> > synchronously. It is only released after the peers have negotiated the
> > close. For SDP, I think this means that both peers have sent and
> > received the SDP DisConn message and/or AbortConn message _AND_ you have
> > shutdown the LLP (called rdma_disconnect).  It is not until after this
> > point that you can expect the port to be reuse-able. 
> 
> Based on Tom's comments, I'm planning on dropping my previous patch that exposes 
> rdma_unbind.

I actually prefer your approach Sean, which is to release the port in
rdma_disconnect.

> 
> - Sean




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