[openib-general] RDMA Generic Connection Management

[James Lentini]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Roland Dreier wrote:

>     James> What happens if multiple devices can reach the destination
>     James> address? How will they be enumerated to the consumer?
>  
> I guess we need to move towards the full horror of getaddrinfo().
> Probably we need some unusable native API, and then library functions
> layered on top for consumers that don't care.
> 
> Although maybe it's not necessary -- are there any consumers of this
> API that really want to choose among different equal-metric routes?

The rule of thumb should be to provide mechanism not policy. If there 
are multiple devices capable of reaching a destination, that should be 
exposed to the consumer. Let the consumer decide which to use (perhaps 
by looking at the ib_device_attr information).

james