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>
diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
index 9b8c20c..10469b0 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c
@@ -229,7 +229,10 @@
int ibnl_unicast(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh,
__u32 pid)
{
- return nlmsg_unicast(nls, skb, pid);
+ int err;
+
+ err = netlink_unicast(nls, skb, pid, 0);
+ return (err < 0) ? err : 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(ibnl_unicast);
@@ -252,6 +255,7 @@
return -ENOMEM;
}
+ nls->sk_sndtimeo = 10 * HZ;
return 0;
}