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

[Olaf Kirch]

On Thursday 29 May 2008 02:03:54 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.

Okay, fine with me. Since TCP is disabled in 1.3 anyway, this shouldn't be an
issue there, but it'll certainly crop up - I'm re-enabling TCP for 1.4.

Care to send me a patch? Any preference as to the port number?

Olaf
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