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Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 16:42:31 +0000
From: "Hefty, Sean" <sean.hefty@...el.com>
To: Doug Ledford <dledford@...hat.com>,
Michael Wang <yun.wang@...fitbricks.com>
CC: Roland Dreier <roland@...nel.org>,
Hal Rosenstock <hal@....mellanox.co.il>,
"linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-doc@...r.kernel.org" <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>,
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>,
"Weiny, Ira" <ira.weiny@...el.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH RFC] Documentation/infiniband: Add docs for rdma-helpers
> > + rdma_cap_ib_cm
> > + ---------------
> > + Communication Manager (CM) will handle the connections between
> ^Connection Manager (CM) service, used to ease the process of
In IB terms, this is communication manager. It also handles transport level address resolution for UD QPs.
> > + rdma_cap_eth_ah
> > + ---------------
> > + Infiniband address handler format is special in ethernet fabric,
> use
> > + the helper to verify whether the port is using ethernet format or
> not.
>
> This helper is true when the address of the specific connection is of
> the Ethernet (RoCE) variety.
This is used for connectionless communication.
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