[ewg] [PATCH RFC v3] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space.
Tung, Chien Tin
chien.tin.tung at intel.com
Thu Nov 13 07:04:36 PST 2008
>> With the addition of getnam(), sin_port is filled in with
>>the reserved port number and cma_any_port will evaluate to
>>false and the reserved port will get used instead.
>So the only problem was carving a port from the proprietary ports pool
>of the rdma-cm where a port was already allocated from the
>network stack?
Another way to look at it is, we want rdma cm to use the port reserved
by the allocated socket. V3 addressed an issue with port 0 causing rdma cm
to not use the reserved port.
Chien
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