[ofa-general] [PATCH RFC] rds: add iwarp support

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Mon Jul 7 11:30:26 PDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 07:14:19PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> On Monday 07 July 2008 18:55:55 Jon Mason wrote:
> > It doesn't seem to work.  After looking through the code, the
> > check_laddr will fail because it is still looking for the IB arp and not
> > the inet arp needed by iWARP.  I hacked around that but it is still not
> > working.  I'll look through the patch more and see if I can determine
> > what is still breaking.
> 
> Okay, thanks for checking. I would really like to have a consolidated
> IB/iwarp transport with just minor differences being special-cased
> by checking for iWARP NICs and/or the new mem mgmt interface.

I 100% agree, but was under the false impression that you wanted it
seperate.  I understand now, and will work off the patch you sent out.

> Note that I did not change the port for iWARP. Would this cause
> trouble for your cards?

I do not believe this is a problem (famous last words).  I will see if I
can determine what is breaking it and create a patch.

Thanks,
Jon

> (Yes, we probably need to use a separate port anyway, for cards that
> do both IB and iwarp - but I wanted to keep the patch minimal initially)
> 
> Olaf
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