[openib-general] Re: [Rdma-developers] Meeting (07/22) summary:OpenRDMA community development discussion

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rolandd at cisco.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 11:14 AM
> To: Yaron Haviv
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig; Tom Duffy; Venkata Jagana; rdma-
> developers at lists.sourceforge.net; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: [Rdma-developers] Meeting (07/22)
> summary:OpenRDMA community development discussion
> 
>     Yaron> It would probably be wise to try and merge that effort with
>     Yaron> IB-verbs etc' (e.g. make the verbs portion of the API
>     Yaron> closer), and on the same time preserve the effort that was
>     Yaron> done in kDAPL to overcome the differences (e.g. in the CM,
>     Yaron> addressing portions)
> 
> This doesn't seem like the right approach to me but we'll be happy to
> review your patches.

So how would you reconcile the differences between IB & iWarp, and
specifically on the connection establishment portion ?
In your approach would I need to access different CM APIs for IB & for
iWarp in my ULP ?

>From my perspective the current kDAPL solves that problem (w/o any
additional patches), and we are trying to re-invent the wheel here. 

If patches are really needed they can probably applied to the kDAPL code
(i.e. remove redundant code/simplify kDAPL), however this is an
optimization that can always be done later. 

Yaron