On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 06:33:41PM +0300, Haggai Eran wrote: > From: Yotam Kenneth <[email protected]> > > In the case of IPoIB, and maybe in other cases, the network device is > managed by an upper-layer protocol (ULP). In order to expose this > network device to other users of the IB device, let ULPs implement > a callback that returns network device according to connection parameters. > > The IB device and port, together with the P_Key and the GID should > be enough to uniquely identify the ULP net device. However, in current > kernels there can be multiple IPoIB interfaces created with the same GID. > Furthermore, such configuration may be desireable to support ipvlan-like > configurations for RDMA CM with IPoIB. To resolve the device in these > cases the code will also take the IP address as an additional input.
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