[ofa-general] [NFS/RDMA] Can't mount NFS/RDMA partition

[Hal Rosenstock]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:12 AM, Talpey, Thomas
<Thomas.Talpey at netapp.com> wrote:
> At 09:43 AM 12/17/2008, Hal Rosenstock wrote:
>>On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Celine Bourde
>><celine.bourde at ext.bull.net> wrote:
>>I'm not familiar with what NFS/RDMA does with the MAD layer
>
> Not a thing. The NFS/RDMA client and server both simply use the rdma_connect()
> and rdma_listen() api to connect to one another. They never ever call MAD explicitly,
> as they are coded to be completely transport-independent.

The ibstat failure is then likely due to a driver/firmware issue. I'm
not sure what the driver is saying back to the kernel MAD layer to
make it loop though.

-- Hal

> Tom.
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