On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Alexandra Winter wrote: > > > On 26.09.23 12:48, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > This patch made me wonder, why doesn't SMC use RDMA-CM like all other > > in-kernel ULPs which work over RDMA? > > > > Thanks > > The idea behind SMC is that it should look an feel to the applications > like TCP sockets. So for connection management it uses TCP over IP; > RDMA is just used for the data transfer. I think that it is not different from other ULPs. For example, RDS works over sockets and doesn't touch or reimplement GID management logic. Thanks
