[rds-devel] Re: Transmit RDS protocol version in first packet

[Olaf Kirch]

On Sunday 13 January 2008 15:53, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> IB has a very useful builtin mechanism for exchanging information during
> the connection esablishment - i.e the private date which you can provide
> rdma_connect/rdma_accept with. So instead of initiating the version
> send in rds_ib_xmit_cong_map you could do that before rdma_connect and
> verify it where the connection request is processed and not on every call
> to rds_ib_cong_recv, etc.

I wasn't aware of this - but Rick brought up this topic at almost the
same time as you, in a different context. If we ever use that mechanism,
I'll switch the version handshake over to this approach.

Thanks
Olaf
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