[openib-general] putting in dead wood for DAPL and similarabomination

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org [mailto:openib-general-
> bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Christoph Hellwig
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 12:06 AM
> To: openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: [openib-general] putting in dead wood for DAPL and
> similarabomination
> 
> Please don't put in things like the address translation service or
> memory windows for DAPL folks.  The IB code in the kernel already
> has far too much unused stuff and adding more will not go past reviews
> for kernel inclusions - as will DAPL itself exactly because of such
> utter stupidities.  

Even if your approach to DAPL was right you still have address
translation service in SDP, and would need one for NFS/RDMA, and another
one to iSER and another one for Lustre, etc' (even if they are coded
directly to the verbs) Not to mention other protocols that access the SA
(e.g. SRP, ..).

So is your idea to duplicate that functionality for all the ULPs ?
Would that make the code simpler and easier to maintain ?

Yaron