From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@mellanox.co.il>
To: David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: move SDP from AF_INET_SDP to IPPROTO_SDP
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:16:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306201603.GA17048@mellanox.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OFB3CB1E4D.355F7555-ON88257129.006C1001-88257129.006C836D@us.ibm.com>
Quoting r. David Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>:
> Subject: Re: RFC: move SDP from AF_INET_SDP to IPPROTO_SDP
>
> I don't know any details about SDP, but if there are no differences at the
> protocol layer, then neither the address family nor the protocol is
> appropriate. If it's just an API change, the socket type is the right
> selector. So, maybe SOCK_DIRECT to go along with SOCK_STREAM,
> SOCK_DGRAM, etc.
No, the API SDP implements is the regular SOCK_STREAM semantics.
The difference is in the way connections are established with
infiniband connection management messages, and data is transferred
with infiniband reliable connection send messages.
--
Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-06 20:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 19:06 RFC: move SDP from AF_INET_SDP to IPPROTO_SDP Michael S. Tsirkin
2006-03-06 19:48 ` David Stevens
2006-03-06 20:16 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
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2006-03-06 20:16 Caitlin Bestler
2006-03-06 20:31 ` David Stevens
2006-03-06 20:32 Caitlin Bestler
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