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

James Lentini jlentini at netapp.com
Thu Sep 29 10:46:27 PDT 2005



On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Sean Hefty wrote:

> Roland Dreier wrote:
> >     Guy> But the main question is: does openib wants to support ATS
> >     Guy> arp ? do we also want to support ATS
> >     Guy> registration/deregistration ?  openib can support, for
> >     Guy> example, only the ATS arp and rely on the openib-less targets
> >     Guy> to do their own registrations.
> > 
> > I would certainly prefer to forget all about ATS in every form.
> 
> That is my preference as well.  I believe that we want to support address
> translation using ARP, but not ATS as defined by SA service registration and
> queries.

I think creating a new address resolution module to address the needs 
of the CMA API is fine. 

However, ATS is needed for interoperability with existing kDAPL and 
uDAPL installations.



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