[openib-general] [PATCH 2/2] ib_cm: fix REJ due to invalid GID

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Tue Jul 18 11:47:59 PDT 2006


>By the way, AFAIK  by design cache might be out of sync with actual hardware.
>Roland, could you confirm this pls?
>
>So if we look things up in cache and they are not there there must be
>a retry strategy which is missing if we reject the connection.
>A quick solution would be to force cache update before reject,
>or query device directly.

If we're trying to look up a specific value, and it's not found in the cache, my
preference would be for the cache code to update itself and retry the check
before returning.

- Sean




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