[Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:49:51AM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> > The other "issue" right now is that dapl has a header struct that needs
> > to come first in all the structs.  So, that would need to be changed.
> > 
> 
> That is what enables the use of the method table. It allows the
> in-line function to know the actual method to call for 'dat_ep_post_send'
> on this specific EP without knowing at compile time which Provider
> code is being invoked.

For that you don't need the header to come first, though. It can be
anywhere in the public part of the object.