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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Alexandra Winter <wintera@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Albert Huang <huangjie.albert@bytedance.com>,
	Karsten Graul <kgraul@linux.ibm.com>,
	Wenjia Zhang <wenjia@linux.ibm.com>,
	Jan Karcher <jaka@linux.ibm.com>,
	"D. Wythe" <alibuda@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	Wen Gu <guwen@linux.alibaba.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	RDMA mailing list <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/smc: add support for netdevice in containers.
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 14:41:04 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230926114104.GL1642130@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76a74084-a900-d559-1f63-deff84e5848a@linux.ibm.com>

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 01:14:04PM +0200, Alexandra Winter wrote:
> 
> 
> On 26.09.23 12:48, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > This patch made me wonder, why doesn't SMC use RDMA-CM like all other
> > in-kernel ULPs which work over RDMA?
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> The idea behind SMC is that it should look an feel to the applications
> like TCP sockets. So for connection management it uses TCP over IP;
> RDMA is just used for the data transfer.

I think that it is not different from other ULPs. For example, RDS works
over sockets and doesn't touch or reimplement GID management logic.

Thanks

  reply	other threads:[~2023-09-26 11:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-25  2:35 [PATCH net-next] net/smc: add support for netdevice in containers Albert Huang
2023-09-26 10:48 ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-26 11:14   ` Alexandra Winter
2023-09-26 11:41     ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
2023-09-26 12:09       ` Dust Li
2023-09-26 17:30         ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-27  3:42 ` Dust Li
2023-09-27  5:55   ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-27 12:17     ` Dust Li
2023-09-28  9:51       ` Leon Romanovsky
2023-09-28  3:11     ` [External] " 黄杰
2023-10-03 10:41   ` Paolo Abeni
2023-10-03 13:26     ` Dust Li
2023-09-28 15:04 ` Niklas Schnelle
2023-10-11 14:48   ` Dust Li
2023-10-12 12:17     ` Dust Li
2023-10-12 19:23       ` Wenjia Zhang
2023-10-13  8:04       ` Niklas Schnelle

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