[openib-general] CM header file

Roland Dreier roland at topspin.com
Thu Dec 16 15:28:29 PST 2004


    Sean> My thinking was that the connection model isn't carried in
    Sean> the CM MADs however, so a receiving CM has to determine how
    Sean> to match the connection request based on what the remote
    Sean> user requested, which isn't known.

    Sean> I guess that by not having this parameter, an incoming
    Sean> request could be matched incorrectly with an outgoing
    Sean> request, if the local listening service isn't up.  I'll add
    Sean> a peer_to_peer parameter to ib_cm_req_param.

Right, peer-to-peer comes in when the CM receives a REQ after it has
sent its own REQ.  So the active connect (which generated the send of
a REQ) needs to have a flag saying whether subsequent incoming REQs
should go through peer compare or be treated independently.

 - R.



More information about the general mailing list