[ofa-general] [RFP] support for iWARP requirement - active connect side MUST send first FPDU

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Oct 24 11:24:45 PDT 2007


> If you think customers are willing to work around this restriction then 
> by all means leave the architecture alone and simply document the rdma 
> API's. I would think that this put's iWARP vendors at a disadvantage.

I think a connection service can hide this restriction, similar to how 
some MPI implementations handle this today.  The solution I mentioned 
was to send a message over the QP from the active side.  This leaves the 
existing architecture unchanged.



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