[PATCH v3 0/2] nvme-fabrics: short-circuit connect retries

[Sagi Grimberg]

On 05/03/2024 10:00, Daniel Wagner wrote:
> I've picked up Hannes' DNR patches. In short the make the transports behave the
> same way when the DNR bit set on a re-connect attempt. We had a discussion this
> topic in the past and if I got this right we all agreed is that the host should
> honor the DNR bit on a connect attempt [1]
Umm, I don't recall this being conclusive though. The spec ought to be 
clearer here I think.
>
> The nvme/045 test case (authentication tests) in blktests is a good test case
> for this after extending it slightly. TCP and RDMA try to reconnect with an
> invalid key over and over again, while loop and FC stop after the first fail.

Who says that invalid key is a permanent failure though?