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

    On Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Steve Wise wrote:

    > The correct solution, IMO, is to enhance the core low level 4-tuple
    > allocation services to be more generic (eg: not be tied to a struct
    > sock). Then the host tcp stack and the host rdma stack can allocate
    > TCP/iWARP ports/4tuples from this common exported service and share
    > the port space. This allocation service could also be used by other
    > deep adapters like iscsi adapters if needed.

    As a developer of an RDMA ULP, NFS-RDMA, I like this approach because
    it will simplify the configuration of an RDMA device and the services
    that use it.
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