linux-kernel - Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

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Date:	Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:07:06 -0500
From:	Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
To:	Sean Hefty <mshefty@...ips.intel.com>
CC:	rdreier@...co.com, sean.hefty@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces
 to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.



Sean Hefty wrote:
>> The iWARP driver must translate all listens on address 0.0.0.0 to the
>> set of rdma-only ip addresses for the device in question.  This prevents
>> incoming connect requests to the TCP ipaddresses from going up the
>> rdma stack.
> 
> I've only given this a high level review at this point, and while the 
> patch looks okay on first pass, is there a way to move some of this 
> functionality to either the rdma_cm or iw_cm?  I don't like the idea of 
> every iwarp driver having to implement address/listen list maintenance. 
>  I may have some ideas after re-examining it.

I think the translating of listen requests from 0.0.0.0->specific 
addresses could be moved to the iwcm...

> 
>> Implementation Details:
> 
> There are a couple of areas that I made a note to look at in more detail 
> (because I didn't understand everything that was happening), but I did 
> have one minor nit - most uses of list_del_init can just be list_del.
> 

Ok.

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