[openib-general] Re: RDMA connection and address translation API

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Roland Dreier <rolandd at cisco.com>:
> Yes, you're right for SDP.  I guess if we're comfortable mandating
> that all protocols put their source and destination IPs in the private
> data for the IB case, then this works.  Of course it's somewhat
> awkward to pass this information into the transport-neutral CM API but
> I think this can be worked around.

Makes total sense to me. Where's the difficulty?
CM doesnt need to expose the private data to consumers, does it?

> No, I think I confused myself.  As long as the CM can get at the IP
> information, it can figure out which consumer is which.

Right.

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