From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:29:21 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1305682604-21383-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org> <20110518170556.GB2595@obsidianresearch.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110518170556.GB2595-ePGOBjL8dl3ta4EC/59zMFaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , linux-kernel , linux-scsi , linux-rmda , Roland Dreier , Vu Pham , David Dillow , James Bottomley List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Many installations run dual rail IB with a desire > for both ports to be active and handling traffic at once. Not sure how > this translates to SRPT, but a good goal would be for a SRPT target to > be available on both HCA ports and support APM between them, at the > discretion of the client. Regarding APM: the Linux kernel already has multipath support and duplicate functionality is in general not welcomed. So you will have to come up with a very good reason before APM support in ib_srp or ib_srpt would be considered for acceptance. Bart. -- 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