From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bart Van Assche Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/4] librdmacm: Rsockets API and implementation Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:18:40 +0000 Message-ID: <4F85E720.5040307@acm.org> References: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373451ACEEF@ORSMSX101.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1828884A29C6694DAF28B7E6B8A82373451ACEEF-P5GAC/sN6hmkrb+BlOpmy7fspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Hefty, Sean" Cc: "linux-rdma (linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org)" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html