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linux/net/smc/smc_inet.h
D. Wythe d25a92ccae net/smc: Introduce IPPROTO_SMC
This patch allows to create smc socket via AF_INET,
similar to the following code,

/* create v4 smc sock */
v4 = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC);

/* create v6 smc sock */
v6 = socket(AF_INET6, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_SMC);

There are several reasons why we believe it is appropriate here:

1. For smc sockets, it actually use IPv4 (AF-INET) or IPv6 (AF-INET6)
address. There is no AF_SMC address at all.

2. Create smc socket in the AF_INET(6) path, which allows us to reuse
the infrastructure of AF_INET(6) path, such as common ebpf hooks.
Otherwise, smc have to implement it again in AF_SMC path.

Signed-off-by: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Dust Li <dust.li@linux.alibaba.com>
Tested-by: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2024-06-17 13:14:09 +01:00

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/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */
/*
* Shared Memory Communications over RDMA (SMC-R) and RoCE
*
* Definitions for the IPPROTO_SMC (socket related)
* Copyright IBM Corp. 2016
* Copyright (c) 2024, Alibaba Inc.
*
* Author: D. Wythe <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>
*/
#ifndef __INET_SMC
#define __INET_SMC
/* Initialize protocol registration on IPPROTO_SMC,
* @return 0 on success
*/
int smc_inet_init(void);
void smc_inet_exit(void);
#endif /* __INET_SMC */