On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 05:08:09PM -0700, PJ Waskiewicz wrote: > > > The patch set you refer to tried to _unify_ the port space and was > > > rejected. The only other alternative is to pick ephemeral ports and > > > maintain a mapping for RDMA services. > > > > I thought both approaches were tried in kernel and NAK'd by > > netdev? This looks very similar to the 2010 patchset, except the > > dummy socket allocation is living in userspace in this version. > > This was something I presented and discussed at NetConf 2011 with > David and other netdev core folks: > http://vger.kernel.org/netconf2011.html. The main issue David had > with the original approach was the socket was being consumed by > something else inside the kernel. It circumvented the TCP socket > allocation/reservation code, which was frowned upon.
If you have/can get agreement from netdev that this is acceptable then I think it is OK from the RDMA side. It would be a good touch to CC the netdev list with the cover letter describing this mechanism properly, maybe referencing this discussion just so there are no surprises. BTW, you can purge my [email protected] email from your address book, that hasn't worked in over 10 years.. Jason -- 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
