RE: [ofa-general] [PATCH v3] iw_cxgb3: Support"iwarp-only"interfacestoavoid 4-tuple conflicts.

Sean,
Not so simple.
How does client application knows where to connect?
Does this proposal forces applications to choose
the "right" network?
Currently, MPA or ULP and not applications handle it.
Why would we want to change that?

Sean,
I may be beating the dead horse,
but I recall that one of the main selling points
of RDMA that it magical bust to performance with
no changes applications. Just plug it in an viola,
performances goes up and CPU utilization for network
stack goes does. Win-Win.

Thanks,

Arkady Kanevsky                       email: arkady@netapp.com
Network Appliance Inc.               phone: 781-768-5395
1601 Trapelo Rd. - Suite 16.        Fax: 781-895-1195
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Hefty [mailto:mshefty@ichips.intel.com] 
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 5:35 PM
To: Kanevsky, Arkady
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; rdreier@cisco.com; 
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] [PATCH v3] iw_cxgb3: 
Support"iwarp-only"interfacestoavoid 4-tuple conflicts.

Kanevsky, Arkady wrote:

quoted

Exactly,
it forces the burden on administrator.
And one will be forced to try one mount for iWARP and it 

does not work 

quoted

issue another one TCP or UDP if it fails.
Yack!

And server will need to listen on different IP address and simple
* will not work since it will need to listen in two 

different domains.

The server already has to call listen twice.  Once for the 
rdma_cm and once for sockets.  Similarly on the client side, 
connect must be made over rdma_cm or sockets.  I really don't 
see any impact on the application for this approach.

We just end up separating the port space based on networking 
addresses, rather than keeping the problem at the transport 
level.  If you have an alternate approach that will be 
accepted upstream, feel free to post it.

- Sean
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