[openib-general] Re: SDP over local communication

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting Majumder, Rajib <rajib.majumder at csfb.com>:
> Subject: SDP over local communication
> 
> hi,
> 
> I am wondering if SDP has support for local communication, i.e, when both the
> data source and the sink run on the same physical hardware and uses
> SOCK_STREAM.
> 
> I have another application that chooses between AF_UNIX and AF_INET, depending
> on whether the peer is on the same host or remote host. Will SDP work in this
> case?
> 
> any opinion is appreciated.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> rajib

Yes, SDP implements a special test for loopback address.
However, you currently still need opensm running on the subnet,
since path record queries are sent to opensm, anyway.

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