From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: RFC: move SDP from AF_INET_SDP to IPPROTO_SDP Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:16:03 +0200 Message-ID: <20060306201603.GA17048@mellanox.co.il> References: <20060306190636.GA14849@mellanox.co.il> Reply-To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: David Stevens Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Quoting r. David Stevens : > 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