On 1/19/2015 1:28 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote: >> Currently, these patches are claiming values that are controlled by an >> established standards organization. It is the equivalent of just >> grabbing a currently unused Ethertype value for a new protocol and then >> claiming that whenever the IEEE allocates it for something else you will >> make changes to resolve the conflict. > > It would be equivalent if OPA was Infiniband, but it is not. It is a > separate architecture, with an entirely separate name space.
But the OPA MAD patches currently share the IBA name space. -- Hal > Conceptually, it is similar to the IB GRH and the IPv6 header. They have a > similar structure, but they are not the same. The IBTA can define a new GRH > field values, such as NxtHdr, without consulting or getting approval from the > IETF. > > Ira could introduce patches to define OPA management packets, but the general > structure of those packet headers would be exactly the same as IB management > packets. There's no need to introduce duplicate definitions into the code > base. The existing structures can be reused. However, OPA makes use of > different values for the fields. > > - Sean > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
