No, DAT didn't ignore it. DAT focused on what the application
needed to specify, and concluded that the applcation had a
legitimate interest in the Class of Service but none in
selection between two arbitrary paths.

The only scenario that anyone identified then was 
that someone might want to load-balance across paths,
and that was better accomplished at a lower layer than
by the application.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 12:51 PM
> To: Caitlin Bestler
> Cc: Roland Dreier; James Lentini; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [openib-general] RDMA Generic Connection Management
> 
>     Caitlin> The assumption implicit in the DAT connection APIs is
>     Caitlin> that there are none (i.e., if you can't distinguish based
>     Caitlin> on Class of Service then you don't care which actual path
>     Caitlin> you get).
>  
> Let's forget about what DAT specified and just try to come up 
> with the right answer.  In any case, DAT ignored routing 
> completely, so I don't think it's helpful to consider it.
> 
>  - R.
> 
> 

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