[openib-general] APM support in openib stack

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Thu Jan 4 10:03:45 PST 2007


> IMO, out of band connections should should be prohibited by the IB stack, but 
> this would likely break a lot of existing code.  The IB CM is the only agent 
> capable of detecting stale and duplicate connections between nodes.  Without it, 
> applications are more susceptible to data corruption.

Hmm, I think we agreed the sensible thing for stale connections is to prevent
QPN reuse for timewait period below the verb interface?

I didn't get to this yet, but you didn't change your mind, did you?

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MST




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