[openib-general] [PATCH] IB/SRP: Enable multichannel

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Quoting r. Lakshmanan, Madhu <mlakshmanan at silverstorm.com>:
> Subject: RE: [openib-general] [PATCH] IB/SRP: Enable multichannel
> 
> Quoting r.  Vu Pham [vuhuong at mellanox.com]:
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/SRP: Enable multichannel
> > What is the advantage to have multiple connections/qps on the same
> >physical port to the same target? The disavantages are wasting
> >resources, instability, no fail-over on physical port error...
> 
> The advantage is if the target in question is an IOC that connects to a
> FC SAN for example. In this case, the host is physically connected to
> the same IOC, but can maintain independent logical connections to
> specific storage devices on the SAN that are "behind" the IOC.

We could just let the user specify the Id Ext when adding the device.
How does this sound?

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MST