>> It's correct that the CMA currently does not do this.  I
>> guess I'm still unsure of why it needs to when running over
>> IB.  The CMA should work fine if it assigned every active
>> connection the same port number.  As long as the CMA manages
>> its own port spaces, does it matter if its semantics are defined this
>> way?
>>
>The 4-tuple must be unique, even across devices. Hence if the
>native stack has X:Y to I:J then CMA cannot also create
>X:Y to I:J.

What I what to understand is _why_ it must be unique?  The CMA-IB port spaces
are separate from the native stack.  And the CMA-IB has no issues connecting or
routing data among multiple connections all having the same 4-tuple.

- Sean
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