Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933729Ab1ESR3p (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 13:29:45 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:45234 "EHLO mail-vw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933596Ab1ESR3m (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2011 13:29:42 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; b=gIYUzFTqHASK+beenj5eCN6rGJrrjPESXytL29jMCk3Kx2cK4QNYWes4ETCjCjk5Dx sdqX+XY8meq2kT/jc5rDQnDVA+5C6WTGjmXvtWPcAGiZ8mHoLLr7iE9WhuB5OwSc1L3z VfMT4YBSQeKC5P1wUHLTLN6Kkgx/KobJK0FZ0= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20110518170556.GB2595@obsidianresearch.com> References: <1305682604-21383-1-git-send-email-nab@linux-iscsi.org> <20110518170556.GB2595@obsidianresearch.com> From: Bart Van Assche Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 19:29:21 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: PIwcjBHZfgz1uN9ItbCb9wlOcl4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC] ib_srpt: initial .40-rc1 drivers/infiniband/ulp/srpt merge To: Jason Gunthorpe Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger" , linux-kernel , linux-scsi , linux-rmda , Roland Dreier , Vu Pham , David Dillow , James Bottomley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 885 Lines: 19 On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Many installations run dual rail IB with a desire > for both ports to be active and handling traffic at once. Not sure how > this translates to SRPT, but a good goal would be for a SRPT target to > be available on both HCA ports and support APM between them, at the > discretion of the client. Regarding APM: the Linux kernel already has multipath support and duplicate functionality is in general not welcomed. So you will have to come up with a very good reason before APM support in ib_srp or ib_srpt would be considered for acceptance. Bart. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/