[openib-general] Re: uCM create connection ID

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Jun 29 11:16:19 PDT 2005


Libor Michalek wrote:
>>Is it possible for a consumer of uCM to provide a context with the 
>>create_id that could be returned with the event? I will have some scale 
>>up issues if I have to walk a list looking for a uCM provided connection 
>>ID instead of a context that could point directly to the appropriate 
>>uDAPL CM object.
> 
>   It would be easy to add in a context variable. I had left it out on
> purpose, since it's easy to get into a situation where using the context
> as a pointer you can end up referencing deallocated memory. However, I
> suppose it should be there for flexability.

Can you explain the situation where the application could reference 
deallocated memory?  I would think that the uCM could take steps that would 
make it impossible for a well written app from doing this.

- Sean



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