On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 05:11:33PM +0000, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Because it is not possible to make the current iwpm netlink code work 100% > reliably, Well, I don't know enough about what iwpm has exactly done in those details to be sure of that statement.. I'm not sure what the message loss strategy is. It looks like loss on connect() just refuses the connection, which seems fine, but loss on close() looks troubled? Not sure. I'm not really inclined to look into iwpm in any detail, but I really want to see Leon's patch series progress, so overcoming that hurdle by using the patch Chien pointed out seems perfectly fine to me. > my proposal is to add a new and redesigned interface for iwpm > communication between user space and kernel and to deprecate the > current API. What would you do differently? And even if this is the best path, the use of blocking send in the compat uAPI code is *still* very appropriate. 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
