Roland Dreier wrote:
> The Chelsio RNIC doesn't support loopback rdma connections. I guess
> we'll have to fail addr/route resolution for local addresses. I
> believe other rdma devices do support loopback, so maybe this needs to
> be some sort of ib_device attribute or something so the rdma-cma can
> fail the resolution based on what the device supports...
That's unfortunate. Setting up loopback connections does work at
least with IB adapters (not sure about nes, don't have HW yet), so yes
this needs to be something that fails specifically for cxgb3.
- R.
Have you ever thought about a SW rdma loopback device? (call me crazy :)
I mean, can linux map memory from one process to another to do direct
copies of data for rdma read/write operations?
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