[openib-general] Re: [PATCH 1/2] iWARP Connection Manager.

[Steve Wise]

> > 
> > The problem is that we can't synchronously cancel an
> > outstanding connect request. Once we've asked the adapter to
> > connect, we can't tell him to stop, we have to wait for it to
> > fail. During the time period between when we ask to connect
> > and the adapter says yeah-or-nay, the user hits ctrl-C. This
> > is the case where disconnect and/or destroy gets called and
> > we have to block it waiting for the outstanding connect
> > request to complete.
> > 
> > One alternative to this approach is to do the kfree of the
> > cm_id in the deref logic. This was the original design and
> > leaves the object around to handle the completion of the
> > connect and still allows the app to clean up and go away
> > without all this waitin' around. When the adapter finally
> > finishes and releases it's reference, the object is kfree'd.
> > 
> > Hope this helps.
> > 
> Why couldn't you synchronously put the cm_id in a state of
> "pending delete" and do the actual delete when the RNIC
> provides a response to the request? 

This is Tom's "alternative" mentioned above.  The provider already keeps
an explicit reference on the cm_id while it might possibly deliver an
event on that cm_id.  So if you change deref to kfree the cm_id on its
last deref (when the refcnt reaches 0), then you can avoid blocking
during destroy...  

> There could even be
> an optional method to see if the device is capable of
> cancelling the request. I know it can't yank a SYN back
> from the wire, but it could refrain from retransmitting.

I would suggest we don't add this optional method until we see an RNIC
that supports canceling a connect request or accept synchronously...

Steve.