On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Wendy Cheng <s.wendy.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > ni i...On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Tom Talpey <t...@talpey.com> wrote: >> >> On 2/26/2014 8:44 AM, Chuck Lever wrote: >>> >>> Hi- >>> >>> Shirley Ma and I are reviving work on the NFS/RDMA client code base in >>> the Linux kernel. So far we've built and run functional tests to determine >>> what is working and what is broken. >>> >>> [snip] > > >>> >>> ALLPHYSICAL - Usually fast, but not safe as it exposes client memory. >>> All HCAs support this mode. >> >> >> Not safe is an understatement. It exposes all of client physical >> memory to the peer, for both read and write. A simple pointer error >> on the server will silently corrupt the client. This mode was >> intended only for testing, and in experimental deployments.
(sorry, resend .. previous reply bounced back due to gmail html format) Please keep "ALLPHYSICAL" for now - as our embedded system needs it. Thanks, Wendy -- 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
