Re: [PATCH for-next V2 05/11] IB/core: Add rdma_network_type to wc

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On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 04:20:50PM +0000, Liran Liss wrote:
> > From: linux-rdma-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-rdma-
> 
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH for-next V2 05/11] IB/core: Add rdma_network_type to
> > wc
> > 
> > Bloating the WC with a field that's not really useful for the ULPs seems pretty
> > sad..
> 
> You need per packet (read per-WC) network type both for handling incoming connections over QP1 and in UD QPs.
> It looks like this patch doesn't extend the structure size due to alignment, so no real harm in any case...

The ULPs couldn't really care less about the network type.  The problem
is that one monolithic structure is used both for communicatation with
the protocol drivers and the RoCE implementation.
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