[ofa-general] [PATCH] librdmacm/man: fix-up man pages

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Wed Nov 7 06:00:43 PST 2007


Sean Hefty wrote:
>> 1) I think we want to mention that rdma-cm remote address resolving 
>> involves issuing an ARP through the network stack (similar to the path 
>> query mentioning in the route resolve page, ARP is not even Infiniband 
>> specific)
> 
> I intentionally did not mention ARP here.  I anticipate that other 
> address resolution techniques will be needed.  Although, I guess that I 
> can call out ARP use for now, and change the documentation later.
> 
> I will start a thread on possible other techniques soon.

Interesting, I'd be happy to see what you are upto...

>> 2) I see you are using a "minimum RNR NAK timer" notation, what does 
>> "minimum" comes to say here?

> This matches the wording in the IB spec: section 11.2.4.2. page 573.

OK, thanks.

Or.




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