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

[Sagi Grimberg]

>>>>> 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.

Its not exactly a reset, its more like a check without a keep alive
timeout interval. You can read the updates when the proposal
is ratified (and the code).