> > Would we lose anything making this a new operation for the QP, versus > trying to hook it into the existing ib_post_send call? > > If I understand correctly you are suggesting making it a verb? Well this > operation is a fast-path operation - so I guess we will loose it in this > case. > Take SCSI for example, for each IO operation submitted by SCSI > mid-layer, transport layer should perform any protection policy that > SCSI asked for. > From this point of view, signature operation resembles fast > registration (since the transport does not own the IOP data buffers, so > it uses fast registration methods). > That is why we are hooking into ib_post_send.
I'm suggesting multiple calls that can post to the send queue, rather than one call that does a giant switch statement at the beginning based on the opcode. -- 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
