On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 7:08 PM, Hefty, Sean <sean.hefty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It does not break every app, the choice of which GID type to use is made >> by the RDMA-CM based on network topology hint obtained from the IP stack. >> Please refer to patch 15/33: IB/Core: Changes to the IB Core >> infrastructure for RoCEv2 support. >> Of course, if the user does not want to go with this choice made by the >> RDMA-CM, then there is the option of overriding it using the configfs >> patch (PATCH 14/33) >> Hope that clarifies? > > RoCE v2 is really Infiniband over UDP over IP. Why don't we just call it IBoUDP like it is? RoCEv2 is the name in the IBTA spec (Annex 17) > > IBoUDP changes the Ethertype, replaces the network header, adds a new transport protocol header, and layers IB over that. This change should be exposed properly and not as just a new GID type. I don't understand what do you suggest here. Can you give an example? > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
