On 7/8/09, Sean Hefty <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote: <snip...>
>>Nowhere in there do I see any retry attempts. If the SA path record query >>packet, or it's response packet, gets lost, then the timeout eventually >> happens >>and we see RDMA_CM_EVENT_ROUTE_ERROR with a status of ETIMEDOUT. > > The kernel sa_query module does not issue retries. All retries are the > responsibility of the caller. This gives greater flexibility to how > timeouts > are handled, but has the drawback that all 'retries' are really new > transactions. To elaborate on this, the downside of this apporach is that this is a different transaction which does not give the SA the ability to discard based on transaction ID so this increases the SA processing load. -- Hal <snip...> _______________________________________________ general mailing list general@lists.openfabrics.org http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
