[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH draft, untested] ehca srq emulation (for IPoIB CM)

[Shirley Ma]

>  > > 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.

That's an interesting point. How to explore different HCAs hardware
features in ULPs is definitely worth to think about deeply.

Thanks
Shirley
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