From "InfiBand Architecture Specifications Volume 1": A QP is said to have a stale connection when only one side has connection information. A stale connection may result if the remote CM had dropped the connection and sent a DREQ but the DREQ was never received by the local CM. Alternatively the remote CM may have lost all record of past connections because its node crashed and rebooted, while the local CM did not become aware of the remote node's reboot and therefore did not clean up stale connections. And: A local CM may receive a REQ/REP for a stale connection. It shall abort the connection issuing REJ to the REQ/REP. It shall then issue DREQ with "DREQ:remote QPN" set to the remote QPN from the REQ/REP. This patch solves a problem with reuse of QPN. Current codebase, that is IPoIB, relies on a REAP-mechanism to do cleanup of the structures in CM. A problem with this is the timeconstants governing this mechanism; they are up to 768 seconds and the interface may look inresponsive in that period. Issuing a DREQ (and receiving a DREP) does the necessary cleanup and the interface comes up. Linux commit: 9315bc9a133011fdb084f2626b86db3ebb64661f MFC after: 1 week Reviewed by: kib Sponsored by: Mellanox Technologies // NVIDIA Networking |
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