[ofa-general] Re: oops in cxgb3:t3_l2t_get

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Feb 7 07:14:12 PST 2008


Steve Wise wrote:
> Roland Dreier wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> With a fairly recent vanilla Linus tree (git head is 551e4fb2), I get
>> the following oops when I run a program that creates a loopback
>> connection with the RDMA CM over an iw_cxgb3 device.  It seems to be
>> totally reproducible.
> 
> The Chelsio RNIC doesn't support loopback rdma connections.  I guess 
> we'll have to fail addr/route resolution for local addresses.  I believe 
>  other rdma devices do support loopback, so maybe this needs to be some 
> sort of ib_device attribute or something so the rdma-cma can fail the 
> resolution based on what the device supports...
> 

Or I could fail it down in iwch_connect().


Thoughts?




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