[ofa-general] [RFP] support for iWARP requirement- activeconnectside MUST send first FPDU

[Steve Wise]

Kanevsky, Arkady wrote:
> The bottom line we need to single solution which works for all vendors.
> This issue cause interoperability problems.
> So Customers will stay on the sideline until these type of issues are
> resolved.
> Hiding behind protocol holes is not going to help adoption.
> 
> Will sending 0-size send message from initiator side work?
> Can IWCM on responder side squeeze 0-size buffer to recv this message
> and swallow it. Hope that there is no check that need to be done
> on all comletions? Will work for both interrupt and polling mode?
> 
> I still believe that it will be simplier to add it to MPA protocol.

Adding it to the MPA protocol will solve the problem for existing HW.