Reconnect on RDMA device reset
Sagi Grimberg
sagi at grimberg.me
Mon Jan 29 12:01:23 PST 2018
Hi Chuck,
> For NFS/RDMA, I think of the "failover" case where a device is
> removed, then a new one is plugged in (or an existing cold
> replacement is made available) with the same IP configuration.
>
> On a "hard" NFS mount, we want the upper layers to wait for
> a new suitable device to be made available, and then to use
> it to resend any pending RPCs. The workload should continue
> after a new device is available.
Really? so the context is held forever (in case the device never
comes back)?
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