linux-kernel - Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <46E99596.8000904@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:02 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
CC:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

Steve Wise wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Steve Wise wrote:
>>> I was about to post v2 of my patch to avoid port space collisions 
>>> with the native stack.  Can we get that 2.6.24?  It is high priority 
>>> IMO. I've tried to solicit review on it, but I think folks are 
>>> reluctant... ;-)

>> Well, if it involves /sharing/ port space with the native stack, i.e. 
>> where port 1234 is IB but 1235 is Linux, pretty much all the 
>> networking devs have NAK'd that approach AFAICS.

> Jeff, I posted a fix that doesn't do this.  No port sharing.  The iwarp 
> device will use its own ip address and subnet to avoid collisions.  You 
> should review the patch when I post v2.

Sounds promising, then!  :)

	Jeff



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