[ofa-general] IPOIB/CM increase retry counts

[Jack Morgenstein]

On Thursday 14 February 2008 09:14, Pradeep Satyanarayana wrote:
> > On the other hand, if the remote host is actually down, you will make "retry storms"
> > worse by retrying both at the link layer AND at the TCP layer (each TCP retry resulting
> > in multiple lower-layer retries).  This will have an effect on the fabric.
> 
> If the remote host is down establishment of an RC connection does not arise. The UD
> connection itself will fail.
> 
I'm talking about the case where the remote host fails after the connection is established.
In this case, RC will continue to retransmit until the rnr_retry count is exhausted.

- Jack