[rds-devel] [ofa-general] Port space sharing in RDS

[Richard Frank]

I see no problem with this - but defer to Olaf.

Olaf is currently presenting at LinuxTag in Berlin - his responses may 
be delayed a day or two..

Jon Mason wrote:
> 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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