[openib-general] CM private data

[Fab Tillier]

> From: Sean Hefty [mailto:mshefty at ichips.intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 9:40 AM
> 
> Fab Tillier wrote:
> > I'm still for hiding the RTU private data.  I think it's useless because
> > it's unreliable - anything exchanged via private data in the RTU must
> > also be exchanged by other means in case the connection is established
> > before the RTU is received.  Any ULPs that depend on the RTU private
> > data are setting themselves up for potential failures.
> 
> This depends on the implementation.  If the server side of a connection
> initiates the data transfer, it cannot do so until an RTU is received.

Good point.  So this gets back to the CM providing the user's RTU private
data even in retries.

- Fab