Messages in this thread | | | From | Bart Van Assche <> | Date | Thu, 19 May 2011 19:29:21 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge |
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On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com> wrote: > Many installations run dual rail IB with a desire > for both ports to be active and handling traffic at once. Not sure how > this translates to SRPT, but a good goal would be for a SRPT target to > be available on both HCA ports and support APM between them, at the > discretion of the client.
Regarding APM: the Linux kernel already has multipath support and duplicate functionality is in general not welcomed. So you will have to come up with a very good reason before APM support in ib_srp or ib_srpt would be considered for acceptance.
Bart.
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