[openib-general] [PATCH] librdmacm: updated librdmacm to work with proposed 2.6.20 kernel CMA

Steve Wise swise at opengridcomputing.com
Thu Nov 2 05:55:00 PST 2006


On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 15:29 -0800, Sean Hefty wrote:
> > This patch removes rdma_get/set_option().  Is that what you intended?
> 
> Yes.  I wanted to reconsider the approach here.
> 
> I believe that there's a cleaner implementation for getting path records that 
> involves a userspace SA library/daemon than going through the rdma cm.  And no 
> one was using the option to set a specific path.
> 
> For the CM timeout options, those were added to support uDAPL, but I believe 
> that a better approach which would accomplish the higher level goal is to have 
> the kernel rdma cm issue MRA (message received acknowledged) messages for 
> clients which are slow to respond to requests.
> 

Ok thanks.  For my testing, I'll remove this code from uDAPL...

Steve.







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