[PATCH v1 0/5] Fix keep-alive mechanism for fabrics

[Max Gurtovoy]

On 4/12/2018 3:14 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> 
>>>> TBKA will work as nop-in/out in iSCSI AKAIK. But again, it will no 
>>>> solve the issue I described above.
>>>
>>> Yes it will, fabrics connect is a traffic indication and will reset the
>>> keep alive timer.
>>
>> Very good. But it will reset a KA timer that is not even started (in 
>> the initiator) ?
> 
> No, host indication of traffic is completions, so the completion would 
> reset it.

I meant that in the current host implementation (that starts KA timer 
after IO queues connection establishment) there will be nothing to reset 
during io queues connection establishment and completions.