From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [NFS] [PATCH 000 of 14] knfsd: Preparation for IPv6 support in NFS server. Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:07:47 +0000 Message-ID: <20070202090747.GA27907@infradead.org> References: <20070202153531.18622.patches@notabene> <45C2D3F0.9050907@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Roland Dreier , NeilBrown , Andrew Morton , nfs@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Jeff Garzik Return-path: In-Reply-To: <45C2D3F0.9050907@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 01:02:24AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > NFS/RDMA is IMO more than a little bit questionable, and the likely > userbase is also quite small. I'm not sure its worth a mainline merge > at this point. Why do you think so? In my eyes it's actually one of the few useful applications for RDMA, especially combined with something like pnfs [*]. Also if you'd look at the patches they're very clean - it's just another possible transport with almost no invastion to the core code. [*] yes, the actual pnfs spec is fugly as hell and symptom of the nfsv4 design by comittee braindamage, but the idea is sound..