On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:42 PM, Roland Dreier <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
I would like to clarify that I do not know the opinion of the network subsystem maintainers about msocket(), but that I posted this information only as an example of an alternative for AF_INET_SDP. Bart. _______________________________________________ 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
