[openib-general] dapl broken for iWARP

Arlin Davis ardavis at ichips.intel.com
Wed Feb 7 15:05:38 PST 2007


Steve Wise wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 14:02 -0600, Steve Wise wrote:
>  
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>>Arlin,
>>
>>The OFED dapl code is assuming the responder_resources and
>>initiator_depth passed up on a connection request event are from the
>>remote peer.  This doesn't happen for iWARP.  In the current iWARP
>>specifications, its up to the application to exchange this information
>>somehow. So these are defaulting to 0 on the server side of any dapl
>>connection over iWARP.  
>>
>>This is a fairly recent change, I think.  We need to come up with some
>>way to deal with this for OFED 1.2 IMO.
>>    
>>
Yes, this was changed recently to sync up with the rdma_cm changes that 
exposed the values.

>>    
>>
>
>The IWCM could set these to the device max values for instance.
>  
>
That would work fine as long as you know the remote settings will be 
equal or better. The provider just sets the min of local device max 
values and the remote values provided with the request.

-arlin




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