Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:01:07 -0700 | From | Sean Hefty <> | Subject | Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space. |
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> The hack to use a socket and bind it to claim the port was just for > demostrating the idea. 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.
Since iWarp runs on top of TCP, the port space is really the same. FWIW, I agree that this proposal is the correct solution to support iWarp.
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