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

[James Lentini]

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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