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From: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
To: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" <nab@linux-iscsi.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-rmda <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>, Vu Pham <vu@mellanox.com>,
	David Dillow <dillowda@ornl.gov>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:29:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikOCeNcDvoCM=BOSxQaSECFhJ05Gg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110518170556.GB2595@obsidianresearch.com>

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe
<jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> 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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-05-19 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18  1:36 [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-05-18  7:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-05-18 16:46   ` Roland Dreier
2011-05-19  6:00   ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-05-18 16:59 ` Bart Van Assche
2011-05-18 17:05   ` Jason Gunthorpe
2011-05-18 18:02     ` Bart Van Assche
2011-05-18 19:17       ` Roland Dreier
2011-05-19  4:18         ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-05-19 10:40           ` Bart Van Assche
2011-05-19 16:57             ` Jason Gunthorpe
2011-05-19 20:03             ` Nicholas A. Bellinger
2011-05-19 17:29     ` Bart Van Assche [this message]
2011-05-19 17:44       ` Jason Gunthorpe
2011-05-19 18:34         ` Bart Van Assche
2011-05-19 18:41           ` Jason Gunthorpe
2011-05-22 19:14             ` Bart Van Assche

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