[openib-general] Re: port_num

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Sean Hefty <sean.hefty at intel.com>:
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] Re: port_num
> 
> >Hmmm... this makes me wonder about how SDP will operate over the CMA.  The CMA
> >supports all RDMA devices, so either SDP can work over all RDMA devices, or the
> >CMA needs to filter non-IB devices when working with the SDP port space.
> 
> Thinking about this more, given that SDP has its own port space defined by the
> CMA, if that port space is limited to just IB devices, then the CMA can use a
> simple algorithm for just the SDP port numbers.

Right. Just take the value in the sysctl_local_port_range.
Do you think its better for CMA to look at sysctl_local_port_range,
or to add parameters to the bind function?

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Michael S. Tsirkin
Staff Engineer, Mellanox Technologies