RE: rsockets and fork

Hefty, Sean
2012-08-17T22:36:51Z

> > retries = 0, err = 0, index = 16, ctrl_avail = 3, sqe_avail = 1020,
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This looks like part of the problem. There should be 4 control messages
> available by default. The receiver has sent a control message to the sender,
> but the control message never completed at the receiver. My guess is that the
> sender never received it either. It may be the missing buffer update, which
> would be an RDMA write into the sender's 'target_sgl' array.
>
> Have you ever been able to reproduce this problem without using fork() support?

A simple check to add is whether the rs_post_write() call ever fails, but in rs_send_credits() in particular. Checking for an error from ibv_get_cq_event() in rs_get_cq_event() may also be useful. In neither case do I expect an error, but we could confirm it.

- Sean