[openib-general] [PATCH v2 1/2] iWARP Connection Manager.

[Steve Wise]

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 14:36 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >> Er...no. It will lose this event. Depending on the event...the carnage
> >> varies. We'll take a look at this.
> >>
> >
> >This behavior is consistent with the Infiniband CM (see
> >drivers/infiniband/core/cm.c function cm_recv_handler()).  But I think
> >we should at least log an error because a lost event will usually stall
> >the rdma connection.
> 
> I believe that there's a difference here.  For the Infiniband CM, an allocation
> error behaves the same as if the received MAD were lost or dropped.  Since MADs
> are unreliable anyway, it's not so much that an IB CM event gets lost, as it
> doesn't ever occur.  A remote CM should retry the send, which hopefully allows
> the connection to make forward progress.
> 

hmm.  Ok.  I see.  I misunderstood the code in cm_recv_handler().

Tom and I have been talking about what we can do to not drop the event.
Stay tuned.

Steve.