Re: [PATCH RDMA] Fixup IPv6 support and IPv4 routing corner cases for RDMA CM

[Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 01:08:33AM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >Here is how I think this should all go. I can't steal some machines to
> >test it right now (prolly can't till after SC|09), but David/Sean maybe
> >you can have a look at it?
> 
> I will try to test it some this week.

Thanks, probably won't work right away, but I feel it is closer..

Do you have any idea about the ARP things? Is whoever did this
originally still around?

> >AH, there is still another oopsie I just noticed, rdma_resolve_addr
> >does not check that dst_addr and src_addr are the same AF
> 
> I was actually considering making use of this to allow AF_INET or AF_INET6 to
> communicate with AF_IB.  There's not a protocol limitation to supporting this.

Hum.. Not sure how that would work? src = AF_INET, dst = AF_IB?

I guess I was hoping you'd be able to do the private data in userspace
and avoid those kind of special cases..

Jason
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