On Tue, Jun 06, 2017 at 06:52:15AM +0000, Ilan Tayari wrote: > So neither the host stack nor the network are aware of them. > They exist momentarily only on the internal traces on the board and not > anywhere else. Is that really true? If you are creating rocee QPs' then the RDMA stack sees this stuff and now we have buried a RDMA ULP inside an ethernet driver which seems really wonky.. > I don't mind explaining further, but I think you will just see it in the > patchset when we submit. You described exactly what I thought.. I just disagree with you that an ethernet connected and controlled IP accelerator is 'part of the NIC', even if it happens to be colocated on the same circuit board. Jason -- 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