[openib-general] RDMA connection and address translation API

[Caitlin Bestler]

NFS over RDMA does not do that.

Shouldn't that be the end of discussion on abusing CM private data
unless you are talking *solely* about IB private data. And if that is
the discussion, should not such a strategy be proposed to IETF
and/or IBTA for an NFSoRDMA for IB official mapping?

The other end of the NFSoRDMA connection is not necessarily
running OpenIB or even Linux and is not party to any of these
discussions.

> 
> My resistance is that ATS is just complexity without any benefit.  It
> doesn't provide additional security.  It doesn't solve the
> multi-homing problem we're talking about now.  Once you've thrown away
> information by turning your IP address into an IB GID, there's no
> magic way ATS can recreate that information and be psychic about which
> of the multi-homed IPs you actually meant.  So why not just put the IP
> addressing information into the CM private data, the way that the SDP
> protocol already does?
> 
>  - R.
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