[Lustre-devel] lustre-1.8.8: rdma_listen() backlog 0 breaks iWARP

[Hefty, Sean]

> I'm not sure why it was changed to 0 though.  It definitely breaks iwarp
> support.  I'm not
> yet sure what the semantics are for creating a listening cm_id with a
> backlog of 0.  Was
> the assumption that 0 means "let the system choose" or "max supported
> backlog"?  The iwarp
> CM interprets 0 to mean no connection requests allowed. :)

0 should mean let the system choose.  Interpreting 0 as no connections allowed doesn't really make sense, since the app can get that by not calling listen at all.