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From: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Subject: Re: NEC's GFS for mainline kernels?
Date: 28 Jan 2003 17:34:17 +0100
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>>>>> " " == Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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)

Although it's too late in the game to add generic support for RDMA
into 2.5.x/2.6.x, this type of project is certainly a very interesting
candidate for inclusion in future kernels.

Cheers,
  Trond