[ofa-general] How to get a thread out of the ib_cm_get_event while wthere is a broken IB connection?

[Or Gerlitz]

Bub Thomas wrote:
> Our application is using OFED 1.1 under SLES10.
> It is a point to point IB connection from a high speed image scanner to 
> a workstation.
> Now I get complains from the field that they do have dead pthreads 
> hanging around that are stuck in the ib_cm_get_event call.

 From your question, I understand that you use libibcm.

How do you get the peer IB L3 (GID) and L2 (LID) info? are you using 
some out-of-band (eg through TCP) exchange for that?

May I ask if libibcm buys you something which librdmacm doesn't?

Or.