RE: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Support out of order data placement

Parav Pandit
2017-07-22T15:11:52Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Talpey [mailto:tom@talpey.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2017 9:52 AM
> To: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>; Jason Gunthorpe
> <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
> Cc: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@sandisk.com>; leon@kernel.org;
> dledford@redhat.com; linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org; Idan Burstein
> <idanb@mellanox.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH rdma-next 0/3] Support out of order data placement
>
> Well, if the broken applications won't use the extension, and the existing
> storage protocols and applications will have to change both their
> implementation and their protocol to use it, who do you envision actually doing
> so?
Current application binaries and their middleware binaries can continue to work as is.
New applications query this feature and enable themselves to take benefit of this optional extension.