[ofa-general] RE: impossibility to bind a device/port with the rdma-cm when the port is down

[Sean Hefty]

>Assuming this is an rdma-cm capable device in a 'bad' state, the user
>space application can wait for asyn ibv events (PORT_ACTIVE) from the
>device. Once the device is active again it can retry the rdma_create_qp
>or rdma_join_mc.

Will this work?  Even once the port goes active, what the application is really
waiting for is for IPoIB to come back up and rejoin its 'broadcast' multicast
group.  I guess you could just continue to retry the operation until it
succeeds...

- Sean