>On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 14:34 -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: >> >Sean, >> > >> >Is there any way of requesting an infinite number of retries? >> >> There is not, but nothing prevents a user from simply re-issuing a >request >> after it times out. > >Infinite retries inside the kernel does not sound like a good idea. How >would you break it? At least we should have some sort of exponential >backoff to prevent flooding the network.
To be a little more clear. The CM protocol uses 4-bits for its number of retries with a linear timeout. What an app does above that is undefined. - Sean _______________________________________________ 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
