[ofa-general] [RFP] support for iWARP requirement - active connect side MUST send first FPDU

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Oct 23 12:37:54 PDT 2007


 > iWARP, has a requirement that the active side of the connection MUST
 > be the first to send the first FPDU (SEND or RDMA operation). This
 > presents a problem with applications written for uDAPL and OFA verbs
 > given that there is no such restriction. So, short of requiring every
 > OFA application/ULP to adhere to this restriction, we need the iWARP
 > vendors to come up with a standard method to remove the restriction.

I actually don't see a problem with just documenting that verbs
consumers that want to work on top of iWARP must follow the documented
iWARP rules.

 - R.



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