From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24 Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:02 -0400 Message-ID: <46E99596.8000904@garzik.org> References: <46E97BB0.9030106@opengridcomputing.com> <46E987E0.2010605@garzik.org> <46E98889.1080706@opengridcomputing.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Roland Dreier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org To: Steve Wise Return-path: In-Reply-To: <46E98889.1080706@opengridcomputing.com> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org Errors-To: general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Steve Wise wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Steve Wise wrote: >>> I was about to post v2 of my patch to avoid port space collisions >>> with the native stack. Can we get that 2.6.24? It is high priority >>> IMO. I've tried to solicit review on it, but I think folks are >>> reluctant... ;-) >> Well, if it involves /sharing/ port space with the native stack, i.e. >> where port 1234 is IB but 1235 is Linux, pretty much all the >> networking devs have NAK'd that approach AFAICS. > Jeff, I posted a fix that doesn't do this. No port sharing. The iwarp > device will use its own ip address and subnet to avoid collisions. You > should review the patch when I post v2. Sounds promising, then! :) Jeff