[ofa-general] Questions about IPOIB handle last WQE event

Shirley Ma mashirle at us.ibm.com
Mon Jul 28 09:08:35 PDT 2008


On Sat, 2008-07-26 at 14:25 -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
> > Then we have a common approach for both nonSRQ and SRQ. We can remove
>  > async event handler. I have tested above patches. But I would like to
>  > hear your thoughts before sumitting them.
> 
> Seems like it would end up ignoring ordering rules for handling
> completions etc, and open windows for either leaking receive buffers or
> use-after-free.  I don't know what the motivation is: what problems do
> we solve by doing this?

The motivation was to release IPoIB QP resource on time especially for
IPoIB nonSRQ with limited connections. I will post the patches for
review to make sure there is no window for leaking receive buffers or
use-after-free.

Thanks
Shirley




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