From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: maxg@mellanox.com (Max Gurtovoy) Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 15:18:12 +0300 Subject: [PATCH v1 0/5] Fix keep-alive mechanism for fabrics In-Reply-To: References: <1523380689-17151-1-git-send-email-maxg@mellanox.com> <512640d9-9e1d-5e52-d7be-5d8203381023@grimberg.me> <1c36f016-5b58-038f-8938-cd9deb15a205@grimberg.me> Message-ID: <8b508b8c-8b35-7d88-5557-d003108b00ff@mellanox.com> On 4/12/2018 3:14 PM, Sagi Grimberg wrote: > >>>> TBKA will work as nop-in/out in iSCSI AKAIK. But again, it will no >>>> solve the issue I described above. >>> >>> Yes it will, fabrics connect is a traffic indication and will reset the >>> keep alive timer. >> >> Very good. But it will reset a KA timer that is not even started (in >> the initiator) ? > > No, host indication of traffic is completions, so the completion would > reset it. I meant that in the current host implementation (that starts KA timer after IO queues connection establishment) there will be nothing to reset during io queues connection establishment and completions.