[openib-general] Re: [PATCH] RFC Verbs: add support for transport specific verbs

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC Verbs: add support for transport specific verbs
> 
>     Michael> I agree.  Roland, what you might have missed is that the
>     Michael> first solution posted added a requirement to check device
>     Michael> type *in addition to checking the method is non-NULL and
>     Michael> its return code* on each transport-specific call, so it
>     Michael> had run-time penalty.
> 
> I don't think I really agree with you that the device type checks are
> necessary in most places.  For example, if we reach code that wants to
> call the process_mad method, then we must already know that we're
> dealing with an IB device.

Sure. But still. There's already discussion in this thread on moving multicast
stuff to ib-specific until iwarp defines it.

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies