[openib-general] [PATCH 0/5 v3] 2.6.20 rdma/cma: add userspace support
Michael S. Tsirkin
mst at mellanox.co.il
Wed Dec 6 00:17:27 PST 2006
> The following set of patches expand the rdma_cm support to include
> UDP port space, and expose the rdma_cm to userspace. Multicast
> support has been removed from the patches until the ib_multicast
> module can be further debugged.
>
> Adding in multicast support later will result in new APIs and an
> ABI bump, but I do not anticipate multicast changing any of the
> existing interfaces. (I'm also less confident that the multicast
> ABIs are correct.)
>
> Without the multicast interfaces, I believe what's left is ready to
> merge upstream.
I agree.
Further, limited UCMA testing done on a very similiar codebase in OFED 1.1 did not
turn up any issues, and CMA updates address API issues we have seen with SDP.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at mellanox.co.il>
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