To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, mshefty@ichips.intel.com,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       general@lists.openfabrics.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH RFC] RDMA/CMA: Allocate PS_TCP ports from the host TCP port space.
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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:11:15 -0700
In-Reply-To: <46C3B5EF.5060409@garzik.org> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:26:55 -0400")
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 > Needing to reach out of the RDMA sandbox and reserve net stack
 > resources away from itself travels a path we've consistently avoided.

Where did the idea of an "RDMA sandbox" come from?  Obviously no one
disagrees with keeping things clean and maintainable, but the idea
that RDMA is a second-class citizen that doesn't get any input into
the evolution of the networking code seems kind of offensive to me.

 - R.
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