Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMAAPIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-28 Thread Sukanta ganguly
--- Christoph Hellwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 06:24:46PM -0700, Caitlin Bestler wrote: Oh that's a great development plan for me to propose to my business people. Let's go write lots of code, and *after* we write it the IB people (our competitors) have agreed

Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
Venkata, How will that work? If the RNIC offloads RDMA and TCP completely from the Operating System and does not share any state information then the application running on the host will never be in the position to utilize the socket interface to use the communication logic to send and receive

Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
I completely agree with Michael's viewpoint here. Doing a clean RDMA focussed implementation would bring out the exact requirements that need to be changed. Retrofitting IB/Infiniband based API into the RDMA based subsystem just to reuse an existing base is not a good start. Thanks SG ---

Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
to be justfied. Did I read that correctly? Thanks SG --- Michael Krause [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 06:40 AM 5/27/2005, Sukanta ganguly wrote: Venkata, How will that work? If the RNIC offloads RDMA and TCP completely from the Operating System and does not share any state information

Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
I agree. SG --- Bernard Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sukanta, without touching any TOE issues (this question is about RDMA, right?), after transforming a TCP connection into RDMA mode and using an RDMA API, the socket file descriptor is not longer to be used for communication. In

RE: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
--- Caitlin Bestler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Krause Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 7:25 AM To: Sukanta ganguly Cc: openib-general@openib.org; [EMAIL

Re: [Rdma-developers] Re: [openib-general] OpenIB and OpenRDMA: Convergence on common RDMA APIs and ULPs for Linux

2005-05-27 Thread Sukanta ganguly
Venkata, I understand what you were saying now. Thanks SG --- Venkata Jagana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 05/27/2005 10:25:36 AM: Mike, I am not sure I do understand what your were trying to communicate. Let me try and decode this. My basic