Re: Netlink messages without NLM_F_REQUEST flag

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On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 12:35:11PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 09:18:10PM +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
>
> > > AFAIK, that is different, that is acking and retriggering a single shot
> > > notification, not completing a kernel initiated handshake.
> >
> > It is acking that message from user was received by kernel and now
> > processing.
>
> But isn't what is cared about here - the SA thing needs to send a
> request to user space and collect a reply, it runs the protocol
> backwards from normal.

Thanks all, this explain a little bit "RDMA anomaly".
I'm not sure that I saw such scheme in the kernel, does anybody else
in the kernel use such backward scheme or this is RDMA-specific?

Thanks

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