[ewg] Re: [PATCH] Request For Comments:

[Steve Wise]

Sean Hefty wrote:
> Thanks for looking at this.
>
>   
>> Here is the top level API change I'm proposing for enabling interoperable
>> peer2peer mode for iwarp.  I want to get agreement on how to expose
>> this to the application before posting more of the gritty details of
>> the kernel driver changes needed. The plan is to include this support
>> in linux-2.6.27 + ofed-1.4.
>>     
>
> I don't have a better idea what to call this, but when I think of peer to peer,
> I think of that as the connection model, not a channel usage restriction.
>
>   

I think I'll call it rtr_mode.  That better describes it.  The client 
side is sending a "ready to receive" message.  And the server side holds 
off SQ processing until the RTR is received...