Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Wise
On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 18:17 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > > > Some IP networking is involved for this. IP addresses and port numbers > > are used by the RDMA Connection Manager. The motivation for this was > > two-fold, I think: > > >

Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-11 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 01:25:44PM -0500, Steve Wise wrote: > > Some IP networking is involved for this. IP addresses and port numbers > are used by the RDMA Connection Manager. The motivation for this was > two-fold, I think: > > 1) to simplify the connection setup model. The IB CM model was

Re: What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Wise
Great summation. Comments in-line... On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 18:11 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 06:53:20AM +, David Miller wrote: > > > > What I am saying, however, is that we need to understand the > > technology and the hooks you guys want before we put any of it in.