From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
To: Bernard Metzler <BMT-OA+xvbQnYDHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>,
bart.vanassche-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:24:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101005162426.GB5967@obsidianresearch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFFB26426A.EB2C13FD-ONC12577B3.00488392-C12577B3.004895E4-Xeyd2O9EBijQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 03:12:48PM +0200, Bernard Metzler wrote:
> good point. do you have a suggestion here - would you like to see
> siw to be enabled more selectively?
> iwarp is a protocol on top of TCP, explicitly defining the
> semantics of data fetching and placement. end-to-end connectivity
> and efficient data shipping is provided by TCP/IP. not taking into
> account dedicated RDMA hardware, any TCP stream may carry iwarp
> traffic. from that point of view, binding a software based
> rdma stack to dedicated devices is a concession to the
> given environment, in particular to the given rdma
> connection management. therefore, we started with binding to all
> available network devices.
Considering the possibility for security issues with code like this it
would be much nicer to have an 'opt in' mechanism.. Ie a
/sys/class/net/eth0/enable_iwarp
type of file.. You can track the add/remove of netdevices weth netevents.
Jason
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-05 6:54 [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization Bernard Metzler
[not found] ` <1286261640-5121-1-git-send-email-bmt-OA+xvbQnYDHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-05 10:57 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <AANLkTik5=i+A5_OpU0rVyfYi=ibgS9UWMu82vMCmM=PN-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-05 13:12 ` Bernard Metzler
[not found] ` <OFFB26426A.EB2C13FD-ONC12577B3.00488392-C12577B3.004895E4-Xeyd2O9EBijQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-05 16:24 ` Jason Gunthorpe [this message]
2010-10-05 22:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-10-06 14:11 ` Bernard Metzler
2010-10-06 16:06 ` Bart Van Assche
[not found] ` <AANLkTikL6u4Kzd1jibp77GMZfMebxusoDX39dPsNK3RW-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-10-06 22:26 ` Stephen Hemminger
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