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On 26.09.23 12:48, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> This patch made me wonder, why doesn't SMC use RDMA-CM like all other
> in-kernel ULPs which work over RDMA?
> 
> Thanks

The idea behind SMC is that it should look an feel to the applications
like TCP sockets. So for connection management it uses TCP over IP;
RDMA is just used for the data transfer.