[openib-general] [PATCH 0/4] Dispatch communication related events to the IB CM

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> The basic problem that this patch solves is if a connection is established,
> but the RTU is repeatedly lost, the user will get a failed connection attempt
> for what should have been an active connection.  I'm not sure if anyone has
> hit this in practice.

Neither am I, but still I'm a bit uncomfortable - after all,
the spec explicitly says:

"it should be pointed out that successful reception of the final message
in a CM protocol message exchange cannot be guaranteed."

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MST