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. > > _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
