[openib-general] [PATCHv2][RFC] kDAPL: use cm timers instead of own

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Wed Jun 8 14:53:56 PDT 2005



On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Hal Rosenstock wrote:

halr> On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 11:44, James Lentini wrote:
halr> > We interpreted the above to mean "give the connection protocol as 
halr> > much time as it needs to establish a connection, but don't mask 
halr> > errors (no path to the remove node, etc.)". For that reason we changed 
halr> > the variable name to DAT_TIMEOUT_MAX.
halr> 
halr> But if the REQ is lost, the timeout is really really long (longer than
halr> most will wait for an error). 

If a user doesn't want to wait DAT_TIMEOUT_MAX time, it can pass a 
smaller amount of time to dat_ep_connect. Does this satisfy your 
requirements?

halr> Transaction test also appears to be using this as well as the 
halr> quit test.
halr> 
halr> -- Hal
halr> 



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