[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH draft, untested] ehca srq emulation (for IPoIB CM)

[Pradeep Satyanarayana]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> We need to make some decisions
> 
> Earlier, Roland suggested:
>> However it may be a good approach to put an abstraction layer in IPoIB
>> so that the CM code can use an SRQ-like interface to both HCAs that
>> support SRQ and HCAs that don't.

This approach would be a regression; no guarantees that anything else
would be better.

As Bernard King-Smith said changing to a different approach (mid-stream)
is not the right thing to do.

> 
> And I think this might be a good approach, too - and maybe
> this layer could be general enough to be reusable in other
> ULPs later.
> 

Pradeep