[swg] Re: [openib-general] TCP/IP connection service over IB

Ted H. Kim ted.kim at sun.com
Mon Oct 24 17:17:22 PDT 2005


Just a comment on this one point ...

Sean Hefty wrote:
>> I'm thinking that for iWARP, there won't be anything in the Private Data
>> at all except consumer private data. Is that your expectation?
> 
> 
> I believe so.  This is only trying to define a TCP/IP connection service 
> over IB.  I'm assuming that there's no need to define something similar 
> for iWarp.

Not sure if this is relevant for your intended base, but ITAPI 2.0
for iWARP has a 16-byte IOH (IRD/ORD header)
in MPA "private data" to note RDMA initiator/responder limits
like the corresponding fields in the IB CM protocol.

-ted





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