> From: Hal Rosenstock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 6:01 PM > > Hi Viswa, > > On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 20:23, Viswanath Krishnamurthy wrote: > > Currently opensm traps SIGINT. There was some discussion to remove it. > > I have currently running some tests on opensm > > by killing (SIGKILL) and restarting opensm. So far I ahve not found > > any resource leak issues. Is ther a plan to remove that > > signal handler. Ideally it should not exist. > > Eitan stated that this was historical in nature for gen1 drivers which > had resource tracking problems: "if OpenSM left without cleaning up all > used resources (like MAD buffers and UD-AVs), the driver oops'ed." > > I think that (eliminating the handler for SIGINT) can at least be done > for OSM_VENDOR_INTF_OPENIB and leave it there for the other vendor > layers for starters. I will experiment with gen2 and let you know.
I'd like to see elimination of signal handling removed from the Windows version too. If there's a bug in the transport due to resource leaks, that needs to be fixed, not masked by handling signals. - Fab _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
