[openib-general] Re: [swg] Re: private data...

[Sean Hefty]

Fab Tillier wrote:
> I'd like to see us define the protocol independent of the service ID.  We can
> then establish a service ID range to be used with this protocol for NFS/RDMA, or
> for more generic TCP mappings, but these are two different issues to me.

But the protocol (if you define a private data format as a protocol) has no 
meaning to the CM.  It only has meaning to the application that's listening on 
the service ID.  Using a reserved bit in the REQ mixes the CM's protocol (which 
is to process REQs, REPs, etc.) with that of the application.

- Sean