[ofa-general] Queue Pair in error state

[Dotan Barak]

Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote:
> If packets are received by a queue pair that has gone to an error 
> state- which of the following is to expected :
>
> 1.It gets dropped by the hardware and the sender will be notified with 
> an error.
> 2. The packet gets delivered to the receiver and the work completion 
> handler needs to deal with it.
I believe that the first scenario will occur.

The responder QP is in error state so all of the incoming packets will 
be dropped by the HCA.
The requestor QP, which won't get any ack (or nack), will eventually get 
a retry exceeded and move to error state as well.



Dotan