netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net/rds: Give fr_state a chance to transition to FRMR_IS

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Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 13:58:23 -0700
From:   Gerd Rausch <gerd.rausch@...cle.com>
To:     santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/7] net/rds: Give fr_state a chance to
 transition to FRMR_IS_FREE

Hi Santosh,

On 01/07/2019 13.53, santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com wrote:
> LOCAL_INV/REG etc are all end being HCA commands and the command timeouts are large. 60 seconds is what CX3 HCA has for example.
> Thats the worst case timeout from HCA before marking the command
> to be timeout and hence the operation to be failed.
> 

It's a tradeoff between waiting for 60 seconds or just putting that memory-region on a drop_list.
IMO, penalizing an application with an up-to 60 seconds wait time is not necessarily the better of the 2 options.

Thanks,

  Gerd

PS: If you've got a pointer to the 60 seconds CX3 HCA timeout, please share.