On 04/03/2013 08:43 AM, Patrick McHardy wrote: > The following patchset adds support for running TIPC over InfiniBand. > The patchset consists of three parts (+ a minor fix for the ethernet media > type): > > - Preparation: removal of an the unused str2addr callback and move of the > bcast_addr from struct tipc_media to struct tipc_bearer. This is necessary > because InfiniBand doesn't have a fixed broadcast address like ethernet, > so it needs to be initialized with the device's broadcast address when > the bearer is enabled > > - Introduction of a TIPC InfiniBand media type. A new media type is needed > to deal with the different address sizes > > - Support for ETH_P_TIPC in IPoIB > > The last patch is something I'd like to discuss, I realize that this diverges > from the IPoIB specification, however the alternative would be to implement > something which would be pretty much identical to IPoIB with the only > difference of handling a different ethertype in the xmit function. > > In fact I'd like to propose to remove all higher layer protocol knowledge > from IPoIB except for ARP and RARP, which need special treatment. With the > recent patch to manage neighbour entries in IPoIB itself, no further knowledge > of higher layer protocols is required. > > The patchset is based on net-next. > > Comments welcome. >
Happy to see this initiative being taken. It seems to me that you have grasped our intentions for how to add a new bearer, so I really don't have much comments, except the one already made by Erik. To me it looks good. Regards ///jon -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
