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Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:55:02 -0400
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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To: Steve Wise <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
CC: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
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Subject: Re: [ofa-general] InfiniBand/RDMA merge plans for 2.6.24
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Steve Wise wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Steve Wise wrote:
>>> I was about to post v2 of my patch to avoid port space collisions 
>>> with the native stack.  Can we get that 2.6.24?  It is high priority 
>>> IMO. I've tried to solicit review on it, but I think folks are 
>>> reluctant... ;-)

>> Well, if it involves /sharing/ port space with the native stack, i.e. 
>> where port 1234 is IB but 1235 is Linux, pretty much all the 
>> networking devs have NAK'd that approach AFAICS.

> Jeff, I posted a fix that doesn't do this.  No port sharing.  The iwarp 
> device will use its own ip address and subnet to avoid collisions.  You 
> should review the patch when I post v2.

Sounds promising, then!  :)

	Jeff


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