[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I created a test program to determine how sockets handles > local system connections. The server side was configured to > listen in 1 of 3 ways: on any address, a local address, or > the loopback address. The client side connected in > 1 of 4 ways (bound address to server address): any address to > a local address, loopback to local, local to loopback, or > loopback to loopback. The results were that all 12 > combinations resulted in a connection. > > To obtain similar behavior with the RDMA CM, I propose the following: > > 1. Binding to the loopback address will no longer result in > acquiring a local RDMA device. (This will be deferred to > rdma_resolve_addr().) 2. Listening on a loopback address will > result in listening across all RDMA devices. > 3. Connections from a loopback address will acquire a device > based on the destination address. If the destination address > is also a loopback address, the CMA will simply pick the > first one in the list. > > I hope to have a patch for this by the end of the week. >
Are you *requiring* that an RDMA device accept loopback connections, or merely *enabling* it? _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
