[openib-general] IB Address Translation service

[Yaron Haviv]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Duffy [mailto:tduffy at sun.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 1:38 AM
> To: Yaron Haviv
> Cc: Paul Baxter; openib-general at openib.org
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] IB Address Translation service
> 
> On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:47 +0200, Yaron Haviv wrote:
> > And as you mentioned there is value to have the same API for
different
> > resolution mechanisms, the SDP code can be altered in future to ride
> > over the proposed API, so it can be used without TCP/IP.
> 
> I am not sure you are gaining much by having SDP use straight ATS.
> Already, once the ARP table is filled with the information, it is a
> local cached lookup.


Tom, the value to Paul is not performance related, but an ability to
resolve an IP to GID without requiring a TCP/IP implementation, I can
think of some applications that would like thin client and still use
Valid IPs

Anyway as I mentioned the ATS support is just one (very minor) thing in
the API we proposed, can I assume you don't have comments to the main
functionality in ib_at ?

Yaron