[openib-general] Re: RFC: cma: need rdma_unbind

[Tom Tucker]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 00:46 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> > This sounds like an SDP over CMA specific issue, correct?  Meaning that an 
> > rdma_unbind call is only needed by SDP?
> 
> Hmm. As I see it, keeping the QP alive for a given timeout after user requested
> close is a simple way to implement graceful close, not limited to sockets.
> On the other hand, we need to free the port immediately.
> 
> So its easy for me to imagine another kernel ULP (besides SDP) wanting this.
> No idea whether it might be useful for userspace as well.
> 

What specifically are you trying to implement ... shutdown()? Is there
some WHCL test that's failing?

Help ;-)?