Re: [swg] Re: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Michael Krause
Just to correct one comment: A ULP written to TCP/IP can use RDMA transport without change.  An example is SDP not that the ULP must use what SDP uses.  Also, please keep in mind that SDP on iWARP uses the port mapper protocol to obtain the IP address and port to target for the connection reques

RE: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Kanevsky, Arkady
Sean Hefty wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Sean Hefty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:44 PM > To: Kanevsky, Arkady > Cc: Sean Hefty; openib-general@openib.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal f

Re: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Sean Hefty
Kanevsky, Arkady wrote: What are you trying to achieve? I'm trying to define a connection *service* for Infiniband that uses TCP/IP addresses as its user interface. That service will have its own protocol, in much the same way that SDP, SRP, etc. do today. I am trying to define an IB REQ

RE: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Kanevsky, Arkady
> -Original Message- > From: Sean Hefty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 3:22 PM > To: Kanevsky, Arkady > Cc: Sean Hefty; openib-general@openib.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket >

Re: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Sean Hefty
Kanevsky, Arkady wrote: Sean, answers in-line. Arkady At this point, I'm just going to disagree with this approach and move on with the current implementation of the CMA. What's needed is a service that provides IB connections using TCP/IP addressing. I don't believe this proposal meets th

RE: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Kanevsky, Arkady
  -Original Message-From: Sean Hefty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 1:05 PMTo: Kanevsky, Arkady; openib-general@openib.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel Dear OpenIB

RE: [openib-general] round 2 - proposal for socket based connectionmodel

2005-10-25 Thread Sean Hefty
Title: Message Dear OpenIB, SWG and DAT members, enclosed is teh second version of the proposal. There are really 2 proposals that are related. The first one is encoding IP 5-tuple into REQ private data with small additional info for versioning and IB capabilities.