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

[Jon Mason]

On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 08:40:55PM +0200, Olaf Kirch wrote:
> 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?

Sure, I'll be happy to send a patch.  The port numbers I picked were simply the current
one for use in TCP and the next one for IB.  Obviously, I will need to verify that
there are no conflicts with its usage.  I'll check this out and send it out shortly.

Thanks,
Jon

> 
> Olaf
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