[openib-general] rdma_cm.h: comment nits.
Sean Hefty
mshefty at ichips.intel.com
Wed May 10 11:13:56 PDT 2006
Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> BTW, Sean, could you please explain why is RESPONSE event IB-specific?
> Does not it match Syn/Ack in the TCP 3-way handshake?
I didn't think that even iWarp exposed the TCP connection messages to the users.
Plus iWarp connections can be formed over an existing TCP connection.
> What I am trying to say, why are you returning ESTABLISHED on the active side at
> all? Maybe we should always pass RESPONSE on active side and only pass
> ESTABLISHED on passive side. TCP certainly seems to make a distinction between
> these.
>
The intent is to keep connection establishment simple. Socket users are used to
calling connect on the active side, and listen/accept on the passive side.
The RDMA CM interface is consistent with that.
- Sean
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