Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge

Roland Dreier
2011-05-18T19:17:21Z

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback. I'm still wondering though about the
> usefulness of disabling / enabling SRPT per HCA port. For the use
> cases I know about SRP communication over all target ports will be
> enabled as soon as target configuration has finished and more
> fine-grained access configuration will occur by allowing/disallowing
> certain initiators to log in.

I definitely think that allowing the flexibility to configure ports individually
is required. It's easy to imagine a case with a separate front-end and
back-end networks on the two HCA ports (this would be a pretty normal
ethernet config), where only one port should be a target port.

It may not be how people do things now but it should at least be possible.

- R.