[openib-general] [PATCH for-2.6.18] IB/cma: option to limitMTU to 1K

Sean Hefty sean.hefty at intel.com
Wed Sep 13 12:32:18 PDT 2006


>Putting knowledge about hw quirks in all protocols is really horrible.

Agreed.

>MTU should be decided by SA as part of path information.
>If ULPs have spicific limitations wrt MTU they should use mtu selector
>in path record query.

Thinking about this more, the proper place for this does seem to be in the
selection of the path record (where you put it), rather than during connection
establishment.

Although, I don't like the idea of the CMA changing every path to use an MTU of
1k.

- Sean




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