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 > It's making real sockets, using the real networking stack,
 > using up real IP port/address pairs recognized by the rest
 > of the real networking stack, and doing RDMA over that
 > connection.
 > 
 > That's not allowed.
 > 
 > We always said that if these RDMA things are in the tree,
 > they should use their own IP addresses and that are not
 > visible to the real Linux networking stack.

How is what the RDS code is doing any different than what the (upstream)
NFS/RDMA and iSER code does?  It uses the same rdma_xxx() interfaces for
handling connections.

 - R.