Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24

[Jeff Garzik]

Steve Wise wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Steve Wise wrote:
> > > I was about to post v2 of my patch to avoid port space collisions 
> > > with the native stack.  Can we get that 2.6.24?  It is high priority 
> > > IMO. I've tried to solicit review on it, but I think folks are 
> > > reluctant... ;-)

> > Well, if it involves /sharing/ port space with the native stack, i.e. 
> > where port 1234 is IB but 1235 is Linux, pretty much all the 
> > networking devs have NAK'd that approach AFAICS.

> Jeff, I posted a fix that doesn't do this.  No port sharing.  The iwarp 
> device will use its own ip address and subnet to avoid collisions.  You 
> should review the patch when I post v2.

Sounds promising, then!  :)

	Jeff



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