On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 08:51:28AM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > Bringing down the NIC interfaces doesn't totally stop the adapter nor destroy > the queues needed for RDMA. It does bring the links down on the ethernet > interfaces though. So it behaves like I thought. I tested this by running an > rping, and while it was pushing rdma traffic, I did 'ifconfig ethX 0.0.0.0 down' > on the interface in use. The data flow stopped (and the iWARP/TCP stack started > retransmitting). I then brought the link back up, and after a few seconds the > rping traffic continued on. So, why defer creating queues until the first ifup? I can understand a nic driver that frees all memory when down (that is fairly common), but this arrangement seems really strange.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
