[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH draft, untested] ehca srq emulation (for IPoIB CM)
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Jun 14 09:48:10 PDT 2007
> > Note this is not a full emulation, just close enough to make IPoIB CM work.
> If the emulation is only enough for IPoIB, then I think it belongs in
> IPoIB, and not in every HCA driver.
I was thinking the same thing. Otherwise you're just setting a booby
trap for someone who tries to use SRQ for something else.
However it may be a good approach to put an abstraction layer in IPoIB
so that the CM code can use an SRQ-like interface to both HCAs that
support SRQ and HCAs that don't.
- R.
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