[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] SRP: Avoid a potential deadlock
    Roland Dreier 
    rdreier at cisco.com
       
    Mon May  1 11:27:24 PDT 2006
    
    
  
    Ishai> Avoid a potential dead-lock.  In srp_disconnect_target
    Ishai> there is a call to ib_send_cm_dreq and a wait for
    Ishai> completion If when getting DREP there is no comp no one
    Ishai> will end this wait
I thought that after the DREP is received, the CM will go through
timewait and we will eventually get a TIMEWAIT_EXIT event (with a
completion).  Am I wrong?  Have you actually seen this deadlock happen
in practice?
 - R.
    
    
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