From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: Work in progress SMB-Direct driver for the linux kernel Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 10:52:47 -0700 Message-ID: <20180201175247.GT17053@ziepe.ca> References: <959c3608-c508-17c4-bad6-fd9421a4a235@samba.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <959c3608-c508-17c4-bad6-fd9421a4a235-eUNUBHrolfbYtjvyW6yDsg@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Stefan Metzmacher Cc: David Disseldorp , Samba Technical , "linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , Tom Talpey , Long Li , Steve French , Ralph =?utf-8?B?QsO2aG1l?= List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 09:18:10AM +0100, Stefan Metzmacher wrote: > The first goal is to provide a socket fd to userspace (or in kernel > consumers) > which provides semantics like a TCP socket which is used as transport > for SMB3. Basically frames are submitted with a 4 byte length header. Part of the point of RDMA is that we don't need to make protocol specific kernel modules like this - is there a specific reason this needs to be in the kernel like this? Jason