From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roland Dreier Subject: Re: Software iWARP stack Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:34:30 -0700 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: (Bernard Metzler's message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:37:59 +0100") Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bernard Metzler Cc: linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org > We at IBM Zurich Laboratory are developing a full-software > iWARP stack to run within the OpenFabrics verbs framework. > Today we open sourced that work to be available at > http://gitorious.org/softiwarp. It consists of a kernel > module (siw) and a user level library (libsiw). Great, congratulations on finally releasing this. I will take a look at this, and I hope we can move this towards the mainline kernel. With the current backlog of things to review/merge, unfortunately I don't think 2.6.35 is realistic; so let's set a goal of getting this into 2.6.36. One thing you could do that would make this a little easier to test and review would be to have the kernel driver tree be based on the main kernel -- ie a git tree based on Linus's kernel tree with exactly the patches required to add softiwarp support committed. It may seem crazy to carry the full kernel tree with your relatively small amount of code, but git makes this really cheap (I can clone your tree with "--reference " and only get one copy of all the objects in common), and it makes it much easier to build and test. Also I would suggest posting your announcement to netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org too, to get review comments from the networking guys. If you can split your code up into a digestible series of patches for review by email, that would help too (post to both netdev@ and linux-rmda@). Having the git tree is useful for following development, testing, building etc, and having the patches by email is useful for reading and reviewing the code -- it makes sending comments back much easier. - Roland -- Roland Dreier For corporate legal information go to: http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/cri/index.html -- 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