[ofiwg] [libfabric-users] Shared Rx and Connected

[Hefty, Sean]

> It seems to me that using a Shared Rx context and 1 CQ with connected endpoints is very
> much like running connectionless: when a message is received, I cannot see an obvious
> way to determine the source of the message.  The CQ entry does not have the endpoint in
> it and I cannot get AVs to work with the TCP or verbs provider (thus I cannot use
> fi_cq_readfrom).

I agree - this is an issue.


> Is there an easy way to determine the source address/endpoint of a received message in
> this scenario?  Would it make sense to include the ep fid in the CQ entry to help?

Some sort of extension is needed here.  I'm not sure what the best answer is.  IMO, the ideal solution would make use of fi_cq_readfrom(), so that the source data is reported the same way regardless of EP type.  I just don't see a clean way to do this off the top of my head.

- Sean