[openib-general][PATCH][RFC]: CMA IB implementation

Sean Hefty mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed Sep 21 09:40:01 PDT 2005


Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> Any split in the API needs to allow iWARP providers to
> implement the first part as a nop. iWARP is defined on
> top of IP transports, and in fact frequently is cleanly
> layered over at least the IP layer (full clean separation
> from the TCP layer being a bit less common). So the
> iWARP implementation may literally have no access to
> ARP data.

If you look at the modified version of the API that I sent it, the iWarp 
implementation is limited to allocating a data structure, and copying the source 
and destination IP addresses.  If a provider has a requirement to do something 
different they can.

- Sean



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