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Message-Id: <20150531.214741.1556826335549377523.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Sun, 31 May 2015 21:47:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
chien.yen@...cle.com, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
ajaykumar.hotchandani@...cle.com, igor.maximov@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net/rds: SOL_RDS socket option to explicitly
select transport
From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@...cle.com>
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 17:28:06 -0400
> Today the underlying transport (TCP or IB) for a PF_RDS socket is
> implicitly selected based on the local address used to bind(2) the
> PF_RDS socket. This results in some non-deterministic behavior when
> there are un-numbered and IPoIB interfaces sharing the same IP address.
> It also places the constraint that the IB interface must have an IP
> address (and thus, IPoIB) configured on it.
>
> The non-determinism may be avoided by providing the user-space application
> a socket option that allows it to explicitly select the transport
> prior to bind(2).
>
> Patch 1 of this series provides the constant definitions needed by
> the application via <linux/rds.h>.
>
> Patch 2 provides the setsockopt support, and Patch 3 provides the
> getsockopt support.
Seems reasonable, series applied to net-next, thanks.
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