> As far as I know SDP is currently implemented in OFED as a separate > address family (AF_INET_SDP). This is an unfortunate approach because: > * This approach will never be accepted upstream by the Linux kernel > maintainers.
> One possible approach is to extend the BSD socket API with support for > multiple IP stack implementations. This can be implemented by e.g. > adding a system call msocket() that has four parameters -- the three > classic socket() parameters and a fourth parameter for the IP stack. I'm not sure why you make this assertion... a new protocol family for SOCK_STREAM sockets seems far more likely to be accepted upstream than adding support for multiple networking stacks. For example RDS was recently queued for 2.6.30 as a new protocol family. I have a hard time imagining multiple IP stacks being accepted upstream on the other hand. - R. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
