[openib-general] [PATCH for-2.6.18] Re: [PATCH] IB/cma: add rdma_establish

[Sean Hefty]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> What I think we need for 2.6.18 is the following. Pls comment.
> 
> 
> IB/cma: increase the retry count in CMA from 3 to maximum 15.
> 3 seems low - we see connections failing under stress - and in any case looks
> like an arbitrary number. 15 is the max value allowed by spec.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>

Dropping 3 packets in a row seems likely only under stress testing, so I'm not 
sure that this is worthy of a change to 2.6.18 at this point (we're at rc7). 
This seems fine for 19 though.

Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>