[openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

[Sean Hefty]

Kanevsky, Arkady wrote:
> Sean,
> answers in-line.
> Arkady

At this point, I'm just going to disagree with this approach and move on with 
the current implementation of the CMA.  What's needed is a service that provides 
IB connections using TCP/IP addressing.  I don't believe this proposal meets 
this goal.

To meet the requirement of connecting over IB using TCP/IP addressing, I believe 
that we need a service with a reserved service identifier or range of 
identifiers, a mechanism for mapping between IP and IB addresses, and a 
mechanism for reversing the mapping.

I don't see where the proposal addresses the bulk of the work that's required, 
nor do I think that it will present an API to the user that does not expose IB 
related addressing (such as service IDs).

- Sean