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

[Steve Wise]

> > 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.

Ok then we can fix this in the iwcm.  I'll post a patch to Linux-rdma soon. 

Thanks,

Steve.