Re: [PATCH,RFC 00/09] svcrdma: Fast Memory Registration Support

[Tom Tucker <tom@opengridcomputing.com>]

J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 04:23:09PM -0500, Tom Tucker wrote:
>> Here are the relevant specs:
>>
>> Unfortunately, the IB specs are private to the IBTA.
>> http://www.infinibandta.org/home
>>
>> The OFA verbs most closely resemble IB verbs.
>>
>> Here are the iWARP protocol specs:
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5040.txt
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5041.txt
>> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5044.txt
>>
>> Here are the iWARP verbs specs. This is what the adapters where written to.
>>
>> http://www.rdmaconsortium.org/home/RNIC_Verbs_Overview2.pdf
>> http://www.rdmaconsortium.org/home/draft-hilland-iwarp-verbs-v1.0-RDMAC.pdf
> 
> OK, thanks very much to you and James for all the explanation.  And
> actually the IB specs do appear to be available if you give them your
> name and address?
> 
> So could one of you add some of this (the explanation of the security
> issues, at least) to Documentation/filesystems/nfs-rdma.txt?
> 
> I'm worried about the fact that the amount of trust required in the
> network will vary so much depending on exactly which hardware and kernel
> version the user has.
> 
> As long as this is relatively specialized hardware, perhaps it's not
> such a big deal....  But at the very least I think we should make sure
> this is carefully documented.
> 

ok. will do.

> --b.
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