[ewg] Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] OFED 1.2: CM scaling fixes

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] OFED 1.2: CM scaling fixes
> 
> >Sean, before applying this, please discuss the MRA timeout patch
> >on the general list with Ishai.
> >
> >Can you fix the patch instead of removing it?
> >It helps him work-around bugs in his SRP target.
> 
> Currently the patch is broken and incorrectly sets the CM timeouts to 21 
> ms, which causes failures on any (even small) scale-up testing.  The OFED 
> 1.1 patch was more limited in scope and only affected MRA timeouts, 
> whereas, this patch affects all CM timeouts.  I thought the SRP target 
> issue was fixed with a firmware update,

This is not always an option.

> and I saw that Ishai was re-working 
> the timeout patch.  Until a fixed patch is ready, I believe that we should 
> remove this.

AFAIK OFED 1.2 has the reworked patch last posted by Ishai.
Last time I checked there were only some cosmetic issues with it.
If there are still issues pls discuss.

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MST