From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 10:24:26 -0600 Message-ID: <20101005162426.GB5967@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1286261640-5121-1-git-send-email-bmt@zurich.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bernard Metzler Cc: Bart Van Assche , bart.vanassche-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html