[openib-general] RDMA Generic Connection Management

[Guy German]

James> What happens if multiple devices can reach the destination
James> address? How will they be enumerated to the consumer?

Roland> I guess we need to move towards the full horror of getaddrinfo().
Roland> Probably we need some unusable native API, and then library functions
Roland> layered on top for consumers that don't care.

Roland> Although maybe it's not necessary -- are there any consumers of this
Roland> API that really want to choose among different equal-metric routes?

I don't think iSER does.

Any way, I think we need to agree on the basic principle API,
and if we want to extend it, along the way of implementation
(like an array of suitable devices instead of a chosen one)
we would be able to patch it.

Guy