> -----Original Message----- > From: linux-rdma-ow...@vger.kernel.org [mailto:linux-rdma- > ow...@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Bart Van Assche > Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 1:44 PM > To: rpear...@systemfabricworks.com > Cc: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [patch v2 37/37] add Kconfig > > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 9:43 PM, <rpear...@systemfabricworks.com> wrote: > +config INFINIBAND_RXE > + tristate "Software RDMA over Ethernet (RoCE) driver" > + depends on INET && PCI && INFINIBAND > + ---help--- > + This driver implements the InfiniBand RDMA transport over > + the Linux network stack. It enables a system with a > > Shouldn't that read "an Ethernet network" instead of "the Linux network > stack" ?
Technically it will run over more than just Ethernet. RXE plugs in at the same place as IP on top of the netdev core. There are some assumptions about the size of the L2 address that make it work better on Ethernet but I used to run it over the loopback device and it also runs over VLANs. > > + standard Ethernet adapter to interoperate with a RoCE > + adapter or with another system running the RXE driver. > + Documentation on InfiniBand and RoCE can be downloaded at > + www.infinibandta.org and www.openfabrics.org. (See also > + siw which is a similar software driver for iWARP.) > > Isn't RoCE an official IBTA standard ? If so, seems like a good idea > to me to mention that here. I'll do that for v3. > > Bart. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
