[ofa-general] [RFC PATCH 4/4] rdma/cma: implementRDMA_ALIGN_WITH_NETDEVICE ha mode

Or Gerlitz ogerlitz at voltaire.com
Thu May 15 07:38:59 PDT 2008


Sean Hefty wrote:
> I thought about this, and I agree that it's worth exploring.  The locking to
> support device removal ended up being fairly complex.  (I'm not sure it would
> have been any easier for ULPs to do this though.)  The main counter I see to
> using a separate channel is that device removal is invoked per rdma_cm_id, so
> there's precedence for invoking the callback per id.
>
> My expectation is that this is a rare event.
Sean, Steve,

Yes, this is rare event. I have stated at the [v2 0/5] email posting why 
I prefer this to be ID affiliated event, will be glad to hear your 
feedback on my arguments.

Or.




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