Roland> No, I think we just need to realize that a perfectly Roland> transport neutral protocol implementation is not Roland> achievable. It's unfortunate that kDAPL fooled people by Roland> hiding the details of the wire protocol under a supposedly Roland> "neutral API," but the fact is that mapping an abstract Roland> RDMA transport to a real implementation will always Roland> involve arbitrary transport-dependent choices.
Further: if we would be willing to say that transport-neutral protocols must use a "kDAPL wire protocol," then there's no problem in defining that wire protocol to put the source and destination IP address somewhere in the CM private data. The current "kDAPL wire protocol" happens to use ATS to try and achieve this (although it doesn't handle the multi-homed case), but that is no more and no less of an arbitrary protocol design choice. So in a nutshell, my objection to using ATS is that it is an arbitrary design choice that doesn't work as well as other equally valid choices. - R. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general