> > > So, you can choose to hide all of this, but I wouldn't describe SRD as > > > unconnected, more as 'automatically connected'. > > > Is there any difference from a user perspective? > > Unconnected implies there is no state. Automatically connected > implies there is a state but it is hidden from the user. Brian said that the state is maintained NIC to NIC, not at the QP level. He went further and suggested that the state is maintained for some period of time, and isn't necessarily tied to the lifetime of the QP. The SRD QPs are unconnected, but let's argue what the definition of a connection is now. > They are equivalent until the state actually matters, like there are > bugs in the state management :) Yes, everything that has transport offload and provides reliability maintains some sort of state. And they can all have bugs. So?
