[openib-general] DAPL for openib

[Sean Hefty]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:21:41 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst at mellanox.co.il> wrote:

> Is this dictated by difficulty of implementation?
> 
> Maybe have something like linux probe function - 
> in linux device driver model after device matches 
> class vendor and device id parameters specified by the
> driver, and probe function  is called to make it possible
> for driver to decide if it wants to handle this device based on other
> fields.
> 
> In the same vein, for each MAD API cold probe matching consumers
> and let them examine the MAD until one says "its mine".

My preference would be for the implementation to hand the MAD directly to the client who needs to process it, and for that algorithm to be O(1).