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

[Tom Duffy]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:34 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >Sean,
> >
> >Is there any way of requesting an infinite number of retries?
> 
> There is not, but nothing prevents a user from simply re-issuing a request
> after it times out.

Infinite retries inside the kernel does not sound like a good idea.  How
would you break it?  At least we should have some sort of exponential
backoff to prevent flooding the network.

-tduffy
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