From: "Steve Wise" <swise@opengridcomputing.com>
To: "'Jack Wang'" <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>,
<linux-block@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <dledford@redhat.com>, <axboe@kernel.dk>, <hch@lst.de>,
<mail@fholler.de>, <Milind.dumbare@gmail.com>,
<yun.wang@profitbricks.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 00/28] INFINIBAND NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE (IBNBD)
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:20:00 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <03bc01d2a4a9$b8b69f10$2a23dd30$@opengridcomputing.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1490352343-20075-1-git-send-email-jinpu.wangl@profitbricks.com>
>
> From: Jack Wang <jinpu.wang@profitbricks.com>
>
> This series introduces IBNBD/IBTRS kernel modules.
>
> IBNBD (InfiniBand network block device) allows for an RDMA transfer of block
IO
> over InfiniBand network. The driver presents itself as a block device on
client
> side and transmits the block requests in a zero-copy fashion to the
server-side
> via InfiniBand. The server part of the driver converts the incoming buffers
back
> into BIOs and hands them down to the underlying block device. As soon as IO
> responses come back from the drive, they are being transmitted back to the
> client.
Hey Jack, why is this IB specific? Can it work over iWARP transports as well?
Steve.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-24 14:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-24 10:45 [RFC PATCH 00/28] INFINIBAND NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE (IBNBD) Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 01/28] ibtrs: add header shared between ibtrs_client and ibtrs_server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 12:35 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-03-24 12:54 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-24 14:31 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-03-24 14:35 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 02/28] ibtrs: add header for log MICROs " Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 03/28] ibtrs_lib: add common functions shared by client and server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 04/28] ibtrs_clt: add header file for exported interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 05/28] ibtrs_clt: main functionality of ibtrs_client Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 06/28] ibtrs_clt: add header file shared only in ibtrs_client Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 07/28] ibtrs_clt: add files for sysfs interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 08/28] ibtrs_clt: add Makefile and Kconfig Jack Wang
2017-03-25 5:51 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-25 6:55 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 09/28] ibtrs_srv: add header file for exported interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 10/28] ibtrs_srv: add main functionality for ibtrs_server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 11/28] ibtrs_srv: add header shared in ibtrs_server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 12/28] ibtrs_srv: add sysfs interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 13/28] ibtrs_srv: add Makefile and Kconfig Jack Wang
2017-03-25 7:55 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-25 10:54 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 14/28] ibnbd: add headers shared by ibnbd_client and ibnbd_server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 15/28] ibnbd: add shared library functions Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 16/28] ibnbd_clt: add main functionality of ibnbd_client Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 17/28] ibnbd_clt: add header shared in ibnbd_client Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 18/28] ibnbd_clt: add sysfs interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 19/28] ibnbd_clt: add log helpers Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 20/28] ibnbd_clt: add Makefile and Kconfig Jack Wang
2017-03-25 8:38 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-25 11:17 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 21/28] ibnbd_srv: add header shared in ibnbd_server Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 22/28] ibnbd_srv: add main functionality Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 23/28] ibnbd_srv: add abstraction for submit IO to file or block device Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 24/28] ibnbd_srv: add log helpers Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 25/28] ibnbd_srv: add sysfs interface Jack Wang
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 26/28] ibnbd_srv: add Makefile and Kconfig Jack Wang
2017-03-25 9:27 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 27/28] ibnbd: add doc for how to use ibnbd and sysfs interface Jack Wang
2017-03-25 7:44 ` kbuild test robot
2017-03-24 10:45 ` [PATCH 28/28] MAINTRAINERS: Add maintainer for IBNBD/IBTRS Jack Wang
2017-03-24 12:15 ` [RFC PATCH 00/28] INFINIBAND NETWORK BLOCK DEVICE (IBNBD) Johannes Thumshirn
2017-03-24 12:46 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-24 12:48 ` Johannes Thumshirn
2017-03-24 13:31 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-03-24 14:24 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-24 14:20 ` Steve Wise [this message]
2017-03-24 14:37 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-27 2:20 ` Sagi Grimberg
2017-03-27 10:21 ` Jinpu Wang
2017-03-28 14:17 ` Roman Penyaev
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