> > From: Jack Wang <jinpu.w...@profitbricks.com> > > This series introduces IBNBD/IBTRS kernel modules. > > IBNBD (InfiniBand network block device) allows for an RDMA transfer of block IO > over InfiniBand network. The driver presents itself as a block device on client > side and transmits the block requests in a zero-copy fashion to the server-side > via InfiniBand. The server part of the driver converts the incoming buffers back > into BIOs and hands them down to the underlying block device. As soon as IO > responses come back from the drive, they are being transmitted back to the > client.
Hey Jack, why is this IB specific? Can it work over iWARP transports as well? Steve.
