[ofa-general] [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.
Steve Wise
swise at opengridcomputing.com
Sat Sep 15 07:07:06 PDT 2007
Sean Hefty wrote:
>> The iWARP driver must translate all listens on address 0.0.0.0 to the
>> set of rdma-only ip addresses for the device in question. This prevents
>> incoming connect requests to the TCP ipaddresses from going up the
>> rdma stack.
>
> I've only given this a high level review at this point, and while the
> patch looks okay on first pass, is there a way to move some of this
> functionality to either the rdma_cm or iw_cm? I don't like the idea of
> every iwarp driver having to implement address/listen list maintenance.
> I may have some ideas after re-examining it.
I think the translating of listen requests from 0.0.0.0->specific
addresses could be moved to the iwcm...
>
>> Implementation Details:
>
> There are a couple of areas that I made a note to look at in more detail
> (because I didn't understand everything that was happening), but I did
> have one minor nit - most uses of list_del_init can just be list_del.
>
Ok.
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