[ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv4 RFC] Scalable Reliable Connection: API and documentation

Michael S. Tsirkin mst at dev.mellanox.co.il
Mon Aug 13 22:50:57 PDT 2007


> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv4 RFC] Scalable Reliable Connection: API and documentation
> 
>  > Having looked at implementation issues, it will be much simpler to just, as you say,
>  > mimic the consumer API -- in kernel space as well.
> 
> Yes, in fact I think we might be able to get away with not breaking
> the user-kernel ABI.  If I understand things correctly, XRC QPs do not
> have an SRQ attached to them, so we could overload the srq_handle
> member of struct ib_uverbs_create_qp to hold the xrc_domain_handle
> when creating an XRC QP.

Correct.

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MST



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