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Commit 77eee325 authored by Wen Gu's avatar Wen Gu Committed by Paolo Abeni
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net/smc: Introduce a specific sysctl for TEST_LINK time



SMC-R tests the viability of link by sending out TEST_LINK LLC
messages over RoCE fabric when connections on link have been
idle for a time longer than keepalive interval (testlink time).

But using tcp_keepalive_time as testlink time maybe not quite
suitable because it is default no less than two hours[1], which
is too long for single link to find peer dead. The active host
will still use peer-dead link (QP) sending messages, and can't
find out until get IB_WC_RETRY_EXC_ERR error CQEs, which takes
more time than TEST_LINK timeout (SMC_LLC_WAIT_TIME) normally.

So this patch introduces a independent sysctl for SMC-R to set
link keepalive time, in order to detect link down in time. The
default value is 30 seconds.

[1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1122#page-101

Signed-off-by: default avatarWen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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