> -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Dreier [mailto:rol...@purestorage.com] > Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 11:21 AM > To: Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com> > Cc: Steve French <sfre...@samba.org>; linux-c...@vger.kernel.org; samba- > techni...@lists.samba.org; LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; linux- > r...@vger.kernel.org; Christoph Hellwig <h...@infradead.org>; Tom Talpey > <ttal...@microsoft.com>; Matthew Wilcox <mawil...@microsoft.com>; > Long Li <lon...@microsoft.com> > Subject: Re: [Patch v2 00/19] CIFS: Implement SMBDirect > > > Starting with SMB2 dialect 3.0, Microsoft introduced SMBDirect transport > protocol for transferring upper layer (SMB2) payload over RDMA via > Infiniband, RoCE or iWARP. The prococol is published in [MS-SMBD] > (https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmsdn > .microsoft.com%2Fen- > us%2Flibrary%2Fhh536346.aspx&data=02%7C01%7Clongli%40microsoft.com > %7C9579a8e546ca4da923a708d4ef0abb51%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011 > db47%7C1%7C0%7C636396276752277123&sdata=FUX9d5ru6f%2B2ZqR%2BJd > XpyIr%2BLf9n8EpuGYhyOgaU96c%3D&reserved=0). > > This is great to see. Is there a Linux implementation of the server side (in > Samba?) so that the client can be tested without needing a Windows server?
I'm not aware of a Linux implementation on server side. Currently it can be tested with Windows Server 2012, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016. > > - R.