On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.he...@intel.com> wrote:
>> It does not break every app, the choice of which GID type to use is made
>> by the RDMA-CM based on network topology hint obtained from the IP stack.
>> Please refer to patch 15/33: IB/Core: Changes to the IB Core
>> infrastructure for RoCEv2 support.
>> Of course, if the user does not want to go with this choice made by the
>> RDMA-CM, then there is the option of overriding it using the configfs
>> patch (PATCH 14/33)
>> Hope that clarifies?
>
> RoCE v2 is really Infiniband over UDP over IP. Why don't we just call it
> IBoUDP like it is?
RoCEv2 is the name in the IBTA spec (Annex 17)
>
> IBoUDP changes the Ethertype, replaces the network header, adds a new
> transport protocol header, and layers IB over that. This change should be
> exposed properly and not as just a new GID type.
I don't understand what do you suggest here. Can you give an example?
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