Re: [PATCH net-next] net/smc: add support for netdevice in containers.

Alexandra Winter
2023-09-26T11:14:34Z

On 26.09.23 12:48, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> This patch made me wonder, why doesn't SMC use RDMA-CM like all other
> in-kernel ULPs which work over RDMA?
>
> Thanks

The idea behind SMC is that it should look an feel to the applications
like TCP sockets. So for connection management it uses TCP over IP;
RDMA is just used for the data transfer.