On 7/6/06, Michael S. Tsirkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Subject: Re: ucma into kernel.org > > > > Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > TCP sockets just expose this to application through the > > > TCP_SYNCNT option. > > > > > > Which leads again to my suggestion: since both TCP and IB CM have this, > > > let us > > > change max_cm_retries to max_request_retries, and add this in rdma_cm as a > > > generic option. > > > > I'm not against adding in generic option for this, but the retry values have > > different limits. IB is limited to a maximum of 15, while TCP has a > > maximum of 255. > > What limits IB retry cound to 15? I would expect it to be arbitrary. Note I > am > talking about CM REQ retries that we do in software and that are not passed in > any message.
The CM REQ includes a "Max CM Retries" field, 4-bits, that specifies the maximum number of retries that can be done for REQ, REP, and DREQ before a REJ is sent to indicate that the connection is aborted. - Fab _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
