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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: RFC: cma: need rdma_unbind
> 
> Tom Tucker wrote:
> >FYI, an application calling shutdown() does not release the port
> >synchronously. It is only released after the peers have negotiated the
> >close. For SDP, I think this means that both peers have sent and
> >received the SDP DisConn message and/or AbortConn message _AND_ you have
> >shutdown the LLP (called rdma_disconnect).  It is not until after this
> >point that you can expect the port to be reuse-able. 
> 
> Based on Tom's comments, I'm planning on dropping my previous patch that 
> exposes rdma_unbind.

I'll need to think about the issue a bit more and conduct some tests
till I'm ready to continue the discussion. Let's get back to it later.

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MST