[rds-devel] FW: RDS -- how to detect peer is gone ?

[Andy Grover]

Tang, Changqing wrote:
> I don't quite follow. If you're not getting the response, you could 
> always issue an rds ping, and that will return (or not) depending on
> if rds is alive on the other end. You know that the machine is up but
> the process is unresponsive. Is that the goal?
> 
> [CQ] yes, the node is up and the process may corrupted. If you can
> extend the rds ping message a little bit to process as optional, that
> would be wonderful.

I don't see why rds's ping functionality as-is is insufficient for what
you want to do.

You're welcome to open a RFE bug on bugs.openfabrics.org. It would stand
a much better chance of being included soon if you attached a patch in
the bug.

-- Andy