[openib-general] [PATCH] 2.6.19 rdma_cm: add rdma_establish call to connect if RTU is lost

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Sun Oct 8 00:23:46 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.19 rdma_cm: add rdma_establish call to connect if RTU is lost
> 
>  > Please consider for 2.6.19, since it does allow a connection to be made
>  > when data is received on a QP, but the RTU is lost.  This problem has been
>  > reported on the OFA OFED releases.
> 
> I'm confused -- how does this fix anything?  I don't see any callers
> of the new rdma_establish() function ??

This is required to complete the passive side support in CMA.
Since there are no in-tree passive side users yet, this is
strictly to make life easier for out-of-tree users.

-- 
MST




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