IB/core: Add flow control to the portmapper netlink calls
authorMustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>
Thu, 28 Jul 2016 20:02:26 +0000 (15:02 -0500)
committerDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 17:14:27 +0000 (13:14 -0400)
commitcea05eadded0d4eb59f7be6e1f1560eb6bfde2bf
tree01d817456c9f1a54d33073da59b9343973e0d3ea
parent3b8fb4b86cf1fb6a3617dc8394f605834fe73f5c
IB/core: Add flow control to the portmapper netlink calls

During connection establishment with a large number of
connections, it is possible that the connection requests
might fail. Adding flow control prevents this failure.
Change ibnl_unicast to use blocking to enable flow control.

Signed-off-by: Mustafa Ismail <mustafa.ismail@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Faisal Latif <faisal.latif@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c