On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:43:12PM -0700, Sean Hefty wrote: > > Can resources (PDs, CQs, MRs, etc.) between the different transports be > shared? > Does QP failover between transports work?
There is nothing in the architecture that precludes this; we are not currently focusing on this. > > Did you consider modifying rdma_node_get_transport_s_() and returning a > bitmask > of the supported transports available on the device? I'm wondering if > something > like this makes sense, to allow skipping devices that are not of interest to a > particular module. This would be in addition to the rdma_port_get_transport > call. > > There's just a lot of new checks to handle the transport on a port by port > basis. > We can use a function: rdma_is_transport_supported(ibdev, transport), which will return true if at least one port runs the given transport. Thus, as long as we have only a few transports, these checks will amount to 1-2 lines of code in each module. _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openfabrics.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
