From: Sowmini Varadhan <sowmini.varadhan@oracle•com>
To: Ka-Cheong Poon <ka-cheong.poon@oracle•com>
Cc: Santosh Shilimkar <santosh.shilimkar@oracle•com>,
davem@davemloft•net, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
rds-devel@oss•oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6_addr
Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2018 11:25:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180706152558.GJ30983@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64196e9e-bb90-9452-5fbf-2004e2bd68e3@oracle.com>
On (07/06/18 23:08), Ka-Cheong Poon wrote:
>
> As mentioned in a previous mail, it is unclear why the
> port number is transport specific. Most Internet services
> use the same port number running over TCP/UDP as shown
> in the IANA database. And the IANA RDS registration is
> the same. What is the rationale of having a transport
> specific number in the RDS implementation?
because not every transport may need a port number.
e.g., "RDS over pigeon carrier" may not need a port number.
in a different design (e.g., KCM) the listen port is configurable
with sysctl
Some may need more than one, e.g., rds_rdma, evidently.
What is the problem with using the unused 18635 for the RDS_CM_PORT?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-06 15:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-27 10:23 [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] rds: IPv6 support Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-06-27 10:23 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 1/3] rds: Changing IP address internal representation to struct in6_addr Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-06-30 8:50 ` David Miller
2018-07-03 14:02 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-05 17:58 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2018-07-06 9:08 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-06 10:15 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-07-06 15:08 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-06 15:25 ` Sowmini Varadhan [this message]
2018-07-06 17:26 ` Santosh Shilimkar
2018-07-09 12:26 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-06 14:55 ` santosh.shilimkar
2018-06-27 10:23 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 2/3] rds: Enable RDS IPv6 support Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-06-27 10:23 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 3/3] rds: Extend RDS API for " Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-05 17:44 ` [PATCH v2 net-next 0/3] rds: " Sowmini Varadhan
2018-07-06 14:36 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
2018-07-06 15:14 ` Sowmini Varadhan
2018-07-09 12:24 ` Ka-Cheong Poon
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