[ofa-general] Port space sharing in RDS

Jon Mason jon at opengridcomputing.com
Wed May 28 17:03:54 PDT 2008


On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:33:06PM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote:
> >During RDS init, rds_ib_init and rds_tcp_init will both individually bind to
> >the
> >RDS port for all IP addresses.  Unfortunately, that will not work for iWARP for
> >2 major reasons.
> 
> Can RDS use different port numbers for its RDMA and TCP protocols?  The wire

I do not know if this is desirable, but a quick test shows that having TCP and IB
on different ports works around the problem.

> protocols end up being different when running over TCP versus iWarp.
> 
> - Sean
> 



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