[openib-general] RFC on CM error handling

[Libor Michalek]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 02:00:51PM -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> Libor Michalek wrote:
> 
> >   Yet another issue. Saving the info from the incomming CM message,
> > specifically REQ and REP, for later QP transitions is something that's
> > going to be duplicated quite a bit. I would really like to see this
> > data in the communication identifier itself, so it can be plucked out
> > later for the QP modifies. To take it one step further, Roland had the
> > suggestion, that it would be really nice to have CM conveniance functions,
> > to which you pass a cm_id and qp_attr structure and it assigns all the
> > correct values and masks for a given transition. For example:
> > 
> >   int ib_cm_prep_rtr(struct ib_cm_id *, struct ib_qp_attr *);
> >   int ib_cm_prep_rts(struct ib_cm_id *, struct ib_qp_attr *);
> 
> I just had a conversation this morning with someone about this exact 
> same functionality.  I think that it makes sense to add these routines. 
> (The exact format/parameters for the API may need to be slightly 
> different.)

  What format were you thinking for the API?


-Libor