On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 03:58:54PM +0000, Bernard Metzler wrote: > >Drivers should be designed so that when all PD's are closed most of > >their resources are gone as well. The core code will ensure all PD's > >are closed. > The problem probably is, that PD's are not going away as > long as the application sits on them. What I want is the provider > to break affected connections, if a link goes down and let > the application know about it. This is not appropriate. In kernel users are notified that the device is going down and will disconnect in an orderly way. uverbs users should get a device fatal async event and should clean up as well. If you want to expedite removal of uverbs then siw has to support the uverbs 'disassociate' flow. Jason
