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.

What is RDMA (was: RDMA will be reverted)

2006-07-07 Thread Herbert Xu
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. Yes indeed. Here is what I've understood so far so let's see if we can start building a censensus.