> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roland Dreier > Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:41 PM > To: James Lentini > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [openib-general] RDMA Generic Connection Management > > James> What happens if multiple devices can reach the destination > James> address? How will they be enumerated to the consumer? > > I guess we need to move towards the full horror of getaddrinfo(). > Probably we need some unusable native API, and then library > functions layered on top for consumers that don't care. > > Although maybe it's not necessary -- are there any consumers > of this API that really want to choose among different > equal-metric routes? >
The assumption implicit in the DAT connection APIs is that there are none (i.e., if you can't distinguish based on Class of Service then you don't care which actual path you get). _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
