Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] librdmacm: Rsockets API and implementation

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche-HInyCGIudOg@public.gmane.org>]

On 04/11/12 18:29, Hefty, Sean wrote:

> The following patch set contains an initial implementation of rsockets as
> presented at the 2012 OpenFabrics Workshop.  A copy of that presentation
> is available at:
> 
> 	https://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/rdmacm/rsockets-ofa12.pptx
> 
> and a video of the presentation can be found here:
> 
> 	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IRrXdIsJuU
> 
> For those of you who don't like clicking on links in an email, rsockets
> is a socket-like API layered over verbs.  It is conceptually similar to a
> user space implementation of SDP, except that it uses custom algorithms and
> protocols.
> 
> The source code has been pushed into an rsocket branch in my git tree at:
> 
> 	git://git.openfabrics.org/~shefty/librdmacm.git rsocket
> 
> All comments are welcome, but mostly verbal praise.  Although comments
> on the wire protocol before an official release would be the most useful.


Interesting work. Regarding direct data placement: have the io_submit()
and io_getevents() system calls been considered ? Those are the
foundation of libaio.

Bart.
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