Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space.

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 22:26 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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I think removing the RDMA stack is the wrong thing to do, and you 
shouldn't just threaten to yank entire subsystems because you don't like 
the technology.  Lets keep this constructive, can we?  RDMA should get 
the respect of any other technology in Linux.  Maybe its a niche in your 
opinion, but come on, there's more RDMA users than say, the sparc64 
port.  Eh?

It's not about being a niche.  It's about creating a maintainable 
software net stack that has predictable behavior.

Isn't RDMA _part_ of the "software net stack" within Linux? Why isn't
making RDMA stable, supportable and maintainable equally as important as
any other subsystem? 

Needing to reach out of the RDMA sandbox and reserve net stack resources 
away from itself travels a path we've consistently avoided.

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I will NACK any patch that opens up sockets to eat up ports or
anything stupid like that.

Got it.

Ditto for me as well.

	Jeff


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