[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] [CM] add private data comparison to match REQs with listens

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Tue Nov 29 12:54:33 PST 2005


Quoting r. Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: [PATCH] [CM] add private data comparison to match REQs with listens
> 
> The following patch modifies the kernel CM API to support matching
> private data in received REQs against listen requests.  This allows the
> CM to support multiple listeners on the same service ID if a
> discriminator is carried in the private data.
> 
> This will be used by the CMA to distinguish listen requests on the same
> port, but on different IP addresses.  Updates were made to SDP and kDAPL
> to support this change.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>

By the way, we are not yes using all bits in the service id,
cant we use some of them for demux, as well?

-- 
MST



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