[ofa-general] ibv_rc_pingpong hangs with forks
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Aug 19 15:14:29 PDT 2009
> The attached modification to ibv_rc_pingpong makes it never complete.
>
> Forking seems to do something bad. I noticed that forking right after
> ibv_post_recv() "cancels" the posted WR (as if it was never issued):
> sender keeps retrying.
>
> Is it expected behavior or a bug?
Yes, forking is expected to cause issues. Do things work better if you
set the environment variable IBV_FORK_SAFE=1 ?
- R.
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