[Ovirt-devel] [Matahari] [PATCH matahari] Introduces explicit heartbeat events to the QMF transport.

Darryl L. Pierce dpierce at redhat.com
Thu May 27 17:55:33 UTC 2010


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:43:30AM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> >> Does the heartbeat event need a counter (like ICMP packets do) to
> >> detect backward jumps and/or lost heartbeats?
> > 
> > Right now the heartbeat sends out the timestamp. But if the clock gets changed, it
> > could seem to be a backwards jump. Changing it to be a counter instead would
> > be a simple change to this patch for pushing.
> 
> I think you'd probably want both.  The timestamp and a sequence number.

That's cool. Okay, so if this is an ACK with that change (I'll wait for
a response) I'll go ahead and push it.

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