[openib-general] (SPAM?) Re: [PATCH 0/4] Dispatch communication related events to the IB CM

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Aug 2 09:54:42 PDT 2006


Quoting r. Sean Hefty <mshefty at ichips.intel.com>:
> Subject: Re: (SPAM?) Re: [openib-general] [PATCH 0/4] Dispatch communication related events to the IB CM
> 
> Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > I suggest you move forward with committing the patch and once the side 
> > discussion is done the next step (which i think is NO-OP per the IB 
> > stack, that is let the ULP handle this) would be implemented.
> 
> I think the open question is whether a call like rdma_establish() needs to be 
> added to the API.  If it is, then I'm not sure that we need to route events 
> directly to the IB CM.  Given the current choices, adding rdma_establish() may 
> actually be easier for the ULP than event forwarding, or maybe we just do both...

I like rdma_establish.
Further, adding this will be a very small patch, safe for 2.6.18.


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