[openib-general] Re: [openfabrics-ewg] SRP: changes to ibsrpdm

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu May 4 09:46:28 PDT 2006


    Ishai> 1) There is going to be an attribute for a target
    Ishai> indicating if it was added by the daemon (Named
    Ishai> daemons). Only the daemon should add targets with this
    Ishai> attribute set.
 
    Ishai> 2) The kernel will not allow the daemon to add the same
    Ishai> target twice.  Regular activation of add_target can add
    Ishai> multiple instances of the same target.

This seems like a strange design to me.  Why can't the daemon keep
track of which targets it has added and not add a target twice?  Is
there some reason that the kernel has to be involved?

 - R.



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