[openib-general] [PATCH] rdma_cm iWARP connection setup timeouts reported as rejects.

[Steve Wise]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 12:13 +0100, Mirko Benz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What could be the reasons for these timeouts to occur?

One way: If the host is not reachable but the next hop neighbour is,
then the connection attempt will timeout.

Another way is if, for some reason, the MPA negotiation doesn't complete
in a timely manner.  For instance, if the passive side never
rdma_accept()s the connection, then the active side should eventually
timeout the attempt and return a timeout error to the consumer.


> How should an application handle this?
> 

Applications should handle connection timeouts however they want.
Usually they just report it to the user.


Steve.