[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.
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