From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steve Wise Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] RDMA/CMA: fix iWARP adapter TCP port space usage Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:37:22 -0500 Message-ID: <4C224652.2060601@opengridcomputing.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Roland Dreier Cc: Bernard Metzler , "Tung, Chien Tin" , Jason Gunthorpe , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Peter P Waskiewicz Jr List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org Roland Dreier wrote: > > Since we are developing and already open sourced a full software > > implementation (SoftiWARP) of RDMA, our view on the optimal solution > > must be different. Like kernel iSCSI, we are running on top of regular > > kernel sockets. With that, there is no point having a connection manager > > blocking just the port we wanted to use for communication - SoftiWARP > > uses kernel sockets for data communication. > > I think this is an extremely strong argument against the patch that > started the thread. Breaking soft iWARP seems a fatal flaw. > > - R. > I agree. -- 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