Re: [RFC v1] nvme-tcp: enable linger socket option on shutdown

[Daniel Wagner]

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 05:20:46PM +0300, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> > During testing the nvme-tcp subsystem by one of our partners we observed
> > this. Maybe this is perfectly fine. Just as I said it looks a bit weird
> > that a proper shutdown of the connection a RST is send out right after
> > the FIN.
> 
> The point here is that when we close the connection we may have inflight
> requests that we already failed to upper layers and we don't want them
> to get through as we proceed to error handling. This is why we want the
> socket to go away asap.

Thanks for the explanation. The RST is on purpose, got it.