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Technically, there was never a solid technical reason to require a new
AF_INET_SDP value since SDP should be transparently interposed underneath
a Sockets AF_INET application (the SDP port mapper protocol helps in this
regard as well). The intended reason for SDP in the first place is
to enable Sockets-based applications to transparently, i.e. non-modified
source and if using shared libraries, non-modified binaries, to take
advantage of RDMA interconnects. This is how it is
implemented on Windows and other OS that support SDP or in Window's case,
the prior incarnation called Winsocks Direct. <br><br>
While making a modification to the address family may seem trivial to
most, the simple act of opening up the application source to any change
is a major issue to many enterprise customers. Given SDP
adoption is nascent and there are competing approaches to protocol
acceleration technology coming to market or being explored as well as a
lot of unfortunate marketing FUD, the developers might want to think
about what it would take to support SDP as originally intended by the
IBTA and IETF.<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
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At 10:21 AM 1/6/2008, Jim Mott wrote:<br>
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I do not believe so. There are some politics involved. This
value is shipped as part of the user space libsdp code. Perhaps
someone that knows more history on this can comment?<br>
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<b>From:</b> general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org
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mailto:general-bounces@lists.openfabrics.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Lenny Verkhovsky<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 06, 2008 10:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> general@lists.openfabrics.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ofa-general] AF_INET_SDP value<br>
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Hi,<br>
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Is AF_INET_SDP equals 27 is standartized for all architectures and
kernels ?<br>
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Best Regards,<br>
Lenny.<br>
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