From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: NEC's GFS for mainline kernels? Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:55:33 +0100 Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20030130215533.A26221@lst.de> References: <20030128163241.A7836@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: Trond Myklebust Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no on Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:34:17PM +0100 List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:34:17PM +0100, Trond Myklebust wrote: > >>>>> " " == Christoph Hellwig writes: > > > Hi Shibata-san, is there a chance your team could release NEC's > > direct-to-SAN NFS code (*) as a patch against stock kernels, > > too instead of only as part of the kernel RPMs for NEC's IA64 > > servers? > > Hi, > > Is that some variant on the RDMA concept? (see http://www.rdmaconsortium.org) > > If so, please note that there is an ongoing effort to standardize > RDMA-over-TCP via the IETF, and (of course) a parallel effort to > integrate it into a future minor revision of NFSv4 (see > http://www.snia.org/tech_activities/workgroups/nfs_rdma) No, it doesn't go over the network but directly to fibrechannel. See the diff (2.4.18 plain -> 2.4.18 nec) that I've put on nl.linux.org: http://nl.linux.org/~hch/patch-2.4.18-nec3.2.bz2