[ofa-general] RE: tcp/rdma port unification patch in librdmacm

[Sean Hefty]

>Would you reconsider moving the tcp/rdma port unification changes up
>into librdmacm?  The benefit is that this will resolve the issue in a
>manner that can flow into the distros and not affect the linux kernel.
>So librdmacm could, if configured to support this,  just allocate and
>bind a user socket to reserve the TCP port on behalf of the rdma
>application.  The code would be similar to the kernel patch...
>
>Thoughts?

This is what I ended up needing to do for Windows (but for other reasons), so
I'm not against adding this to the library.

I'm undecided on the best way to expose this.  Always enabled?  Enabled during
the build?  Enabled through a new API?  Other?

- Sean