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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710090934340.32008@jlentini-linux.nane.netapp.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 09:44:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: James Lentini <jlentini@...app.com>
To: Steve Wise <swise@...ngridcomputing.com>
cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, rdreier@...co.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports
from the host TCP port space.
On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Steve Wise wrote:
> The correct solution, IMO, is to enhance the core low level 4-tuple
> allocation services to be more generic (eg: not be tied to a struct
> sock). Then the host tcp stack and the host rdma stack can allocate
> TCP/iWARP ports/4tuples from this common exported service and share
> the port space. This allocation service could also be used by other
> deep adapters like iscsi adapters if needed.
As a developer of an RDMA ULP, NFS-RDMA, I like this approach because
it will simplify the configuration of an RDMA device and the services
that use it.
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