Quoting r. Sean Hefty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB_CM: Limit the MRA timeout > > Ishai Rabinovitz wrote: > > There is a bug in SRP Engenio target that send a large value as service > > timeout. (It gets 30 which mean timeout of (2^(30-8))=4195 sec.) Such a long > > timeout is not reasonable and it may leave the kernel module waiting on > > wait_for_completion and may stuck a lot of processes. > > > > The following patch allows the load of ib_cm module with a limit on the > > timeout. > > There's several timeout values transfered and used by the cm, most notably > the > remote cm response timeout and packet life time. Does it make more sense to > have a single, generic timeout maximum instead?
Hmm. I'm not sure - we are working around an actual broken implementation here - what do you think? > Would it make more sense to > enable the maximum(s) by default, since we're dependent upon values received > over the network? I think it would. -- MST _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
