[ofiwg] definition of a completion in OFI

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 07:18:23PM +0000, Underwood, Keith D wrote:

> > Destroying a RC QP while there is pending send q work on either side does
> > not have well specified behavior in IB, and that is exactly the case Sean is
> > probing with his sockets test.
> 
> Which gets back to: the app is wrong.  No server should ever be
> written that way.  No app that it is ok to write that way is going
> to lack a "finalize()".

That is a fine answer - but in sockets land functions called shutdown and
close *DO* have well defined semantics for incomplete data, that are
completely different than the above.

Don't call the libfabric versions shutdown and close, or give them
socket like semantics.

Jason