RE: [Patch v2 00/19] CIFS: Implement SMBDirect

Long Li
2017-08-29T19:31:25Z

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> From: Roland Dreier [mailto:roland@purestorage.com]
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> Cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>; linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org; samba-
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> Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
> Subject: Re: [Patch v2 00/19] CIFS: Implement SMBDirect
>
> > Starting with SMB2 dialect 3.0, Microsoft introduced SMBDirect transport
> protocol for transferring upper layer (SMB2) payload over RDMA via
> Infiniband, RoCE or iWARP. The prococol is published in [MS-SMBD]
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> This is great to see. Is there a Linux implementation of the server side (in
> Samba?) so that the client can be tested without needing a Windows server?

I'm not aware of a Linux implementation on server side.

Currently it can be tested with Windows Server 2012, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016.

>
> - R.